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Wolf, Your original post in this thread does not contain a SINGLE grammatical sentence. I am not asking for perfect grammar, but please try a little harder to communicate. Do not just type sentence fragments stitched together with "...". Use capitalization once in awhile. Try punctuation as...

I am certain your local library has "What Evolution Is" by Ernst Mayr, or "The Blind Watchmaker". I am equally certain you will derive great benefit from reading such books, so you actually know what the theory of evolution is. That would be a big help in criticizing it and worrying about its...

Why would we discuss evolution in terms of quotes mined from communist, nazi, and christian sources? Is it because that is easier and less work than actually reading a book about evolution?

That strategy will get you nowhere, since religion generally and Christianity specifically has also generated racism. If you think communist and nazi policies were based on the belief that there are no gods, you are also ignorant of communism and nazism. Since this is the "Creation and...

Those are not ad hominems, please don't use technical terminology that you do not understand. Your education and career is irrelevant to the fact that every post belies an abject ignorance of ToE.

1) The poll is nonsense. 2) Finding two people to vote on something on the internet in no way shows anything you've said has merit. You can propose 2+2=5 and find two people on the internet that agree. 3) Your speculation about how only an atheist would vote for one or the other is inane...

Just a follow up, why do you have to be so combative in your faith? If you're being reasonable, like I said, your reasoning applies to other things, too. Then your religion meaningfully correlates negatively with the rights of blacks to vote? I don't think that, but your argument entails...

If they do correlate with nonbelief, then so does abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, and the defeat of smallpox and polio. Have your cake, or eat it. One or the other.

Actually, it is only developed nations with close ties between state and religion that are seeing the 'loss of religion'. The secularization of Europe has taken place in the context of established religion, government sanction of prayer, government displays of iconography, and the like. The...

Well I've only built one system but I really disagree. It cost me about $750 to build an Athlon XP 2700 with 1 gig of DDR 400 ram, 200 gig HD, and a smoking nvidia 6600gt graphics card. This thing eats Doom3 for breakfast. My power supply is probably better than any Dell or Compaq model. The...

The "cheapest but best" computer is the one you build yourself. www.newegg.com Otherwise, well... Buy the nicest Dell you can afford, I suppose. Unless you're into gaming or video editing, it doesn't matter all that much.

Using a vga splitter you can do this, however, I am afraid that the video signal seriously degrades with extreme cable length. You'll have to look into that. This isn't like running speaker wire. Another option it to use a second cheap computer and run a VPN client over a network instead of...

Not really. You don't have to give your password away to have it stolen. If you send it over a nonencrypted connection (http not https) then it is sent across the web in plain text. There are hundreds of programs for spying on such traffic. Change all your passwords.

In my opinion that's exactly my point. A desktop OS should not require skills exhibited only by those who do those types of jobs. It should just work. Certainly that's how Microsoft sells itself! It should not take the skillset of an IT professional to run a desktop. It's great that your...