...except many steel parts are being replaced by plastic or aluminum ones. Granted, aluminum is stronger than plastic, but sometimes it still isn't really strong enough. I'm no metallurgist, so I don't know about all the cool new alloys out there; but, I figure a lot of those alloys are probably too much more expensive to consider using in large amounts.

I can't tell you how glad I am of this. I pray that God will show himself to you in your life in a way that will let you believe. Forever is a long time, and God wants you to be happy during it, but he won't force you.

I think I may have hit the wrong reply button, so I'm leaving a little message here so you get the notification that I've replied.

Here's where it comes down to whether you can believe in something.

I know God is real and THE God because I know him personally. I talk to Him every day. He works in my life in ways that no one else could, preparing me for things that have happened in ways that no one else could. I have seen Him heal people in ways that have flabbergasted doctors, just because those people prayed in faith to be healed.

To answer the questions why humans, what does God look like, etc:

Genesis 1:27-28
27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

But the Bible tells us that the form God has is not a physical form, but a spiritual one:

John 4:24
24) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

In answer to your question about teaching love, I don't believe people in general would hold to the idea of loving their neighbor if we hadn't been taught it by God in the first place. Many people STILL don't. This is why our nations are being consumed by the greed of their leaders and businessmen.

It sounds like you're saying God doesn't exist because some dead guy (Occam) says say it's unlikely. And anyway, how is the theory "God made it" not composed of fewer entities and simpler relationships? I count 2 entities: God and existence. I count 1 simple relationship: God vs existence. Count the entities and relationships involved in the big bang and evolution. I hope you have a lot of time and know a lot of big numbers.

Besides that, no one was around 14 billion years ago to prove whether these "explanations" are correct. We don't even have first hand accounts of any of the things mentioned in these explanations.

We have first hand accounts of everything that's written in the Bible as witnessed by the men who penned down God's words.

It still seems to me that you are discounting God, the Bible, Jesus, etc. because they can't be proven using the tools/methods you're used to and comfortable with. Is it not possible that there is another layer to reality that we have a very weak connection with and cannot measure in a test tube?

I know God exists, because I talk to Him all the time. And He answers. You can say I'm crazy, but no one who knows me would agree. And yes, plenty of non-believers know me, and they know me well enough to decide whether or not I'm insane.

Why is this "explanation" more likely than God actually existing? Is there something about this man's ideas that make them more possible than the existence of God, especially since we have a record of some of the things he has said and done involving man, aka, the Bible?

Sure, lots of people automatically discount the Bible because it's so old and doesn't confirm what they think, but what makes it less substantiated than other ancient texts that don't mention divine existence/intervention? In school, many history lessons are derived directly from these other ancient texts, and they are generally taken as truth.

He has always been. And before you say that's a cop-out, tell me where the matter came from that got all compressed and exploded in the big bang. A previous big bang? Where'd that matter come from?

I like the way you phrased that. We can't disprove evolution scientifically, so people take it to be fact.

You can't disprove God scientifically either.

What makes "God did it" an invalid answer, assuming that there might be (and is) a God?

Why is anything spiritual automatically invalid?

And when I say we're not allowed to question it, I refer to all the people who have been ostracized, denied tenure, etc. for doing just that. As reference, see Ben Stein's "Expelled: No Thinking Allowed".

This sounds like the prevalent attitude in "modern" science. When I was in school, we learned that scientists are supposed to question everything. Now that I'm a little older and have actually listened to what the scientists are saying, I know what they really mean: question everything unless I say it's true.

How dare anyone question evolution.

One of the worst for me is getting users to differentiate between Outlook and Outlook Express. It's all just Outlook to them.

That's great. Christmas isn't about Santa. It's about our Saviour, Jesus Christ. I don't believe in Santa either, but I love Christmas. There's a reason why it's called Christmas, not Santamas.

Check out this link. According Azureus, charter already throttles bandwidth. If what this page says is true, you can have your 60 Mbps connection, but don't use it too much!

http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs#United_States_of_America

Right, if the interference is coming from your home. People in apartments, developments, etc. may not have this luxury. Are you going to tell your neighbor to replace his/her 2.4Ghz cordless phone because it causes your wifi to drop?