As many people know already (possibly because I like debating science and religion on forums, so inevitably it comes up), I'm an atheist. It's only in the past year or so that I've really been an atheist, although I'd long considered myself non-religious/agnostic before.

Now I've often heard it said that being an atheist takes "more faith" than believing in a deity, because then how do you account for our existence through mere chance? In particular, one argument along this...

(I'm not much of a "my everyday life" blogger, so this blog will probably end up being a collection of my various rants on whatever I feel like ranting about.)

If I had to say one thing I admire about the US, it would be the political system. It's not perfect by any means- the country is dominated by only two parties, and the electoral college system means that the only presidential votes that matter are in the swing states- but it is a good model of how to set up and maintain...