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For a century and more the U.S was seen as the destination for forward thinkers. It is sad to me that this icon of technological superiority would, at least appear, to be falling into the abyss of religious dogma. I think for my own part, if someone started talking to me about teaching creationism in the class room my response might go something like this: "Well if we teach the Christian view of creation, to be fair, we shall have to include other religion's views such as Hindi, Native American, Shinto and even Scientology." And see what they say then.

First: Why is it when people want to denigrate something they call it a liberal agenda? Second: I am always stunned to hear someone talk as though the global warming was still being debated. It is no longer theory. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's comments were not that global warming didn't exist, but that the concept of carbon trading is not viable. If you actually listen to the man speak, besides just hearing what you want to hear, you'd notice he takes the issue of global warming very seriously. The Geochemical Society is a lobby group, so of course they'd award someone's book that backs up their mission. Dr. Nir Shaviv's position that solar activity accounts for a large part of 20th century global warming doesn't argue against man-made global warming at all, unsurprisingly since the two topics are unrelated but often confused by both the doom sayers and naysayers. In the end your response is something I see as being very typical of people still clinging to mistaken thought that climate change is still a theory to be proven. Highlighting little bits of statements by some and ignoring the rest of the discussion in a vain attempt to leverage your view. By the way, I vote conservative.

The civilization series stands the test of time because of the lengthly scenarios. You invested time in taking a tribe and bringing it to supremacy through the many hours of game play. In fact the worst thing you could have in the game is to be spawned to close to another civilization which would make you have to go war to quickly and then get out paced technologically by more isolated ones. Of course if you did get too far behind you could still hope that your little archers could stave off the invading knights if you had some walls or perhaps the terrain bonus, but it sounds with the consoles you get one step behind and your done. My hopes for the console version after this review are not high.