Taco leaves, and suddenly no-one's proof-reading submissions...

Oh dear, and you'd started so well. You definitely get some religious wingnuts, fond of all sorts of conspiracy theories. But you also get the equivalent on the secularist side of things, who believe that all religious people have undergone volontary lobotomies, and seek nothing better than to invent invisible friends for themselves.

Nutters on both sides. Not sure where that leaves the rest of us though.

I think I get it (or a bit of it, maybe). Imagine the situation where documents and URLs didn't change over time. If you're writing an academic essay, and you quote, say, Einstein, then rather than copy-pasting a quote, you link to a paragraph in the book itself. Einstein's book, also, can contain links to Newton. So any quoting from elsewhere allows you to see not only the quote but also the context. I can see this being quite useful, and would be a fantastically easy way to check someone wasn't being misquoted.

Problems with this, however, are that there are no unchanging links for these sources, that sources may change and be modified, and that it's only really useful for academic-type work where quoting is integral.

So a nice idea for a bit of software, or a website, but not really a challenge to the structure of the web itself.

We need more context. Can you post a photo?

Not sure what this is, but can I have some for the car?

According to the article:

"I’ve written before about the implementation of tabbed documents in a word processor, and that’s only the beginning."

You've got to admit that Mozilla giving up on browsers is the only responsible course of action with such innovations awaiting.

The way you describe it, it sounds identical to theology. That's why you can study the subject, why there's more than one theologian in the world, various points of view, changes and trends. I'm not too sure where you can be getting your vision of theology from - although if yours is a widespread perception, it would go some way to explaining the reluctance of some scientists towards publicising their faith

Yup, it's kind of annoying really. Thing is though, if you're talking about a creator, science just isn't a great tool for dissection. It'd be like analysing Slashdot developers based on the HTML and Javascript for this site - you might get out a bit of psychoanalysis, but you probably won't be able to determine the colour of their hair. If a god's the creator, then (s)he defined the rules. That's a bummer for finding an easy-kill argument for religious belief, but it's a sensible starting point for the discussion, rather than an argument-avoiding excuse.

Having had a "religious" upbringing and been on the scene for a while, I'm not sure I've ever had anyone tell me to do the former. YMMV, but again, that's part of the point : it's not about a single "religion" or a single approach. Religions can be open and closed, questioning and scared. You can't lump them all together in this kind of a discussion

So, in other words, updating science to better correspond with reality is good science. Updating theology to better correspond with reality is bad theology.

Kind of "heads I win, tails you lose" situation.

You'll pretty much deserve the flame mods though. Pretending that there's one "god" portrayed differently by the various religions isn't helping your case. "Logical challenges a scientific analysis demands" suggesting that a divine being (perhaps the source of the universe), is somehow subject to science, is a curious argument at best. You don't appear to be in a good position to be saying "it is so" to all those with religious beliefs.

There's diversity out there, which is why the conversation is worth having : how do different beliefs interact with people's way of understanding science ? Scientists throughout history have had various beliefs which may have helped or hindered their quest for knowledge. They're part of the discussion

That's fine - you're a geek. However, for my parents, I'm recommending they go for Chrome simply because of the update feature. Any kind of manual intervention in updating is going to throw them, but with Chrome, they're going to be up to date and relatively secure. Chrome's got it right for the vast majority of users and Mozilla would do well to go in the same direction.