Not that I disagree with you, but there are some things in Science that we 'just believe' in.....mostly because we can't yet show/demonstrate/repeat, only postulate on what happens. Also, I think you can have both, you just have to realize some things in Religion are there because they couldn't explain at the time and you have to adapt it to what we've learned since then.

There is a good chance the old one I have has pre-1.6 firmware. I'll have to look as I'm selling it....I know I hacked it in college to run NES and SNES ROMS, but I don't recall what version the firmware is.

There would be a great uproar about it but slashdotters can't connect their ipods to their linux boxen atm to alter the OS.