Technically every health indicator is affected by life style, just some less than others. As far as I know every developed countries uses WHO guidelines for infant mortality rate and it has nothing to do with weight or height.

Also I would love to see the source for that figure, not to mention a more up to date figure too. I've had to research these things pretty extensively for class and I've never heard about standardization against accidental deaths, and would be interested to see which organizations use it in their calculations.

But even big countries like Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, are all healthier than us and spend a smaller percentage of their gdp, despite having nationalized universal healthcare.

As for our education system, rich towns use additional tax revenue to bolster their public schools. I would know since I lived in a town that used this model to keep its high school well financed and constantly had the school ranked as one of the best in the state and country. Poor inner city towns don't have this benefit and lack basic resources to effectively teach their kids.

I'm not saying that the government is going to come in and everything is going to be fine and dandy. But I really don't think a corporation that's more concerned with its bottom line, is going to worry about implementing preventative healthcare or care about the general wellbeing of people in society.

Christianity has a book that was written 200 years after jesus died. No one really knows when he was born. No one has ever seen god and when they do there alone and only have stories. So what do you really have accept I talk to him in my  head or you have a feeling. You know schizophrenia has the same symptoms. Most that deny it realize that is unlikely to be true, accept to people who are more insecure about their after life. Hell is scary, doesn't make it real, Heaven is great, Don't make it real. What you feel inside could just be you exciting you self and creating chemicals to give you a sense that you feel god. That simple.

So you ask what proof of science? Everything you own you should throw out, thats science that made that. So science, yea I see it all the time and helps me to learn facts, time and everything. So yea you keep kicking it up to the elusive god of the sky but I will go with what is working.

You do know we found A higgs boson partical don't you?  Just watch.

Don't think many ogrinizations actually use it.  Largely because well... the only groups who make comparisons vs countries are political orginizations trying to lobby for something, including this source.   Since comparisons vs countries are completely worthless because of all the differnt factors

As for who's it is... and the actual flaws assosiated with it.

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-the-us-lead-in-life-expectancy-223/

(not perfect, though it's more accurate then no adjustments at all.)

The really sad part is.  Nobody has ever bothered to actually do it the long way... by actually removing accidental deaths and homicides.

As for infant mortality... (and other stuff related to choice.)

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/08/infant-mortality-measurements-not.html

I understand why though. It's so hard to just leave these things be xD

Religion to me is more than God or gods. Yes to others this is important but I see it differently.

I somewhat disagree with John Burroughs. To disregard the part religion played in making the west what it is today is to do it a discredit.

First of all religion gave the west belief. In the US citizens were taught that they were "blessed by God" and America was God's land. It served a common purpose of togetherness and made them believe anything was possible with god as the leader.

From the anthem "In God is our trust" to the pledge "one nation under God" promoted this.

In Europe colonisation of the new world to "spread the gospel" - we all know it was about wealth but religion was beneath the surface - brought great prosperity.

It was the push for more..  more speed, more lands, more weapons... more wealth that drove science.

As America and the west now become less religious they are losing that bond that held them together and drove them on. They are becoming lesser on the world stage as other nations that hold on or try to recapture their faiths become more powerful.

I don't believe athiesm can provide this bond. Hitler, Stalin and the emperor Hiroshito realised this and in they own way tried to become themselves gods, making people die in their name but in the end it never worked.

Religion is the greatest divider of peoples, it can also be the greatest unifier.

Even modern China has now realised this, promoting Taosism, Buddhism etc for a more "together" society.

I am not religious in any way but believe it plays a big part in the cohesion of any major society, regardless of the religion.

I am not saying athesim could't work, but those that tried it all seem to fail.

I wish him luck trying to figure this stuff out - dude looks like he's 90. He will die 100 times over, generations come and gone before he figures out anything other than light crashes into itself lol. Good luck with that. Thanks, but no thanks, until Scienece figures out the Universe I'll read my Bible, and die with Science and Faith.

Question, he mentioned the Universe expanding, and the possibility of other Universes expaning as well - but what are these Universes expanining into, i.e. what is outside of our Universe? By the way where did these Crystal and exploding Light particles come from? Possibly that unknown void that our Universes are expanding into?

Everything you're asking is untestable. The expansion of the Universe is a rate that exceeds the speed of light. The higgs boson confirms our Standard Model of particle physics. The higgs boson was only theorized prior to such a finding.

Question, have you taken any physics or biology courses at the college level?