What has this repsonse to do with music studios? The Atari ST range has a solid reputation in the music production world for having rock-steady MIDI timing.

Many men of science took the cloth in those days because it was a cushy job with lots of free time to study nature and think. Hard to imagine that now...

Hmm - nice strawman. The question was "do you believe" (which is shorthand for "do you think it is true") not "do you believe in" (which is generally reserved for the supernatural/faith/ and other unsciency thinks). I believe the earth orbits the sun - meaning I think it is true even though I will never be in a position to observe this directly - but the evidence supports it. However I don't "believe in" the earth orbiting the sun. I think this is a case where the overloaded meaning of believe is tripping us up.

Evolution is an easily observable fact - if we use dog breeding as an example. Everyone on the planet knows that if you mate two dogs of wildly different types you'll get some kind of funky hybrid. A recent example - the labradoodle. Seems like an easy way to undermine the whole "Evolution is not a fact" statement. Then it's just a simple matter of extrapolating from the unnatura selectionl to the natural selection - i.e. random couplings of breeding pairs will produce variant offspring - some will do well in the environment, some will not. Robert.