President Bush talked about his alcohol use with former prisoners at a faith-based program, calling his alcoholism an addiction for the first time and sharing the role faith played in his recovery. Here’s a video of the men’s response.

GodTube is tapping its pool of 250,000 registered users and taking an unscientific presidential election poll. Mike Huckabee wins the Christian vote, and Obama comes in second.

The Pew Forum finds some common themes in this year’s raucous presidential primary. The election matters to voters, Republican turnout lags behind Democratic turnout, independent voters are playing a big role, and for Democrats, race and gender matters more than issues.

It’s the Super Bowl Blitz, and companies are exploring ways to expand the impact of the $2.7 million they pay for a 30-second Super Bowl ad. This means taking ads online, so check Yahoo, Google, YouTube and MySpace this Sunday.

The world’s aging population will have an effect on international politics. Researchers say a high youth population and high unemployment rates can be an environment to breed resentment and terrorism. As the youth population gets older, areas like Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are due to stabilize soon.

A family buried their son, only to discover years later that they’d left his brain behind in the hands of a coroner. Their lawsuit may change the way we treat the deceased.

American scientists have taken a step towards creating artificial life. They have created all the genetic material for a synthetic chromosome. If they can successfully insert it into another bacterium and make it reproduce, they can claim to have created life. Controversial scientist Craig Venter says, “It puts a lot of power in the hands of humans.”

News broke last week that GodTube, a free video-sharing Web site that rode YouTube’s coattails to popularity, set a record even its namesake never held: It was the Internet’s fastest-growing site in August. Sources pegged the number of unique visitors between 1.7 million and 5 million, an almost 1,000 percent growth since it started Aug. 8.

Yes, there has been Conservapedia, the Wikipedia alternative, and Famster and MyChurch, Christian spin-offs of Facebook and MySpace. But so far, this is the most successful Christian foray into “Web 2.0″ — a term for the outburst of online communities, social-networking sites and wikis that are remaking the Internet.

Chris Wyatt, GodTube’s CEO, said he hopes GodTube will help reverse the American church’s eroding importance. But when Fox News asked if GodTube is a “fair swap” for church, Wyatt responded, “We’re not a substitute for church. We’re just there for the millions of individuals who are seeking a new faith experience online.”

Early GodTube reviews were swift and swordlike. Critics like George Simpson are giving the site the third-degree. True, many videos are silly. (In one, apologist Ray Comfort debunks evolution using his famous banana example, pointing to evolution’s “non-slip surface.”)

Other Internet observers have wondered why it took Christians — who created alternative phonebooks, eHarmony and a plethora of faith-centered radio and TV stations and magazines — this long to capitalize on Web 2.0.

“Sure, denominations and sects have their own . . . web resources — some even run dynamic, regularly updated web portals,” wrote Barry Summerlin, a contributor to BloggingStocks. “But your web search for religion will mostly yield a lot of domain squatting . . . and last century’s web design.”

Summerlin points to some interesting data: While the number of Google search entries for “God” and “Jesus” barely eclipses those for “Britney Spears” in the past three years, the term “church” has routinely bested all three.