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Why intelligent design proponents are wrong. Because every few years this country, in its infinite tolerance, insists on hearing yet another appeal of the Scopes monkey trial, I feel obliged to point out what would otherwise be superfluous - that the two greatest scientists in the history of our species were Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, and they were both religious. Newton's religiosity was traditional. He was a staunch believer in Christianity and member of the Church of England. Einstein's was a more diffuse belief in a deity who set the rules for everything that occurs in the universe. Neither...

Subject: How the US tax system really works; an illustration. With all the talk about Bush's tax plan - I thought this illustration might help those who still think the wealthy get all the tax breaks. Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten people go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four people-the poorest-would pay nothing; The fifth would pay $1: The sixth would pay $3; The seventh $7;...