Why did Bill Gates (atheist?) give $9,350,000 to the Discovery Institute, an Intelligent Design organization?
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Chris C has the correct answer, and it's one million a year, not a lump sum.\n\nA more interesting question is why is the Discovery Institute connected with Sun Myung Moon?
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He was not an atheist... otherwise he would not have made this statement...\n\n"The sphere of religion belongs the faith that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that it is comprehensible to reason. I can not conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image; science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." \n\n                                                                           Albert Einstein
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Actually, Einstein believed in Spinoza's god.  He didn't believe in a creator.  Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.\n\n----\n\nI also noticed how you phrased that... "Source for a longer SHORT list"\n\nFunny, isn't it, that you can only find a short list, when Project Steve has over 100,000 names on it supporting Evolution -- and they limit themselves to PhDs named Steve.  Can you imagine how massively limiting that is?  ONLY PhDs, and ONLY if they're named Steve.
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It was not 'discovered'. Bill Gates went to school, and they had some huge computers there. The students messed with them, and programmed with punchcards. Bill excelled in it, and everyone asked him questions about it. He got hired to make a traffic counting machine with a friend. The friend died, and Bill picked up the project with Paul Allen. They did other things, and eventually created the DOS operating system and sold it to IBM. They later created Microsoft, and bought back the rights for their DOS and started distibuting DOS to everyone. DOS grew over time, and GUIs were formed, and Microsoft became a giant.
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Bill Gates??  No way!!  He has a gift to make money out of technology, but he's no mathematician, neither a technology guru.\n\nI suggest Alan Turing, British mathematician who is considered the father of computer science.  Modern computers are all based on principles of his "Turing Machine".
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Those micro-organisms were proven to be fabricated. But of course, whywould they tell everyone that? Their evolutionistic brainwashing campaigns wouldn't get nearly as much funding then. No there is no life out there. What would be the point of creating life that isn't from Earth. God is smarter than you, much, much smarter. Organisations like SETI propagate this myth of alien life so they get millions in funding. The statement, "We are only 1 universe of billions and billions", is very misleading. The odds of spontaneous generation is greater than the amount of atoms in this Universe, and there is only one Universe.\n\nDreamers.
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"Intelligent design" is a meaningless term and it has nothing to do with the biblical God.\n\nMany atheists, including Einstein, used the term. And, they did not use it to mean that a God of any kind existed or "created" the universe.\n\nEinstein also used the word "God," but he did not use the term to mean "Supreme Being" or God of the bible. He used it in reference to the orderliness of the universe.\n\nThe answer is "no."
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Your question is not easily deciphered.  Are you asking why intelligence isn't needed to design the human brain?  It was.  God is omnipotent and he's the one who designed it.  Why do you think we know such a small fraction of its uses?  Because we, as humans, could never even begin to fathom the complexities of God.
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Bill Gates; that's not my opinion though, it's from the Forbes Rich List. Also, Warren Buffet gave money to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, not to Bill Gates.
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Carl Sagan made billions and billions.
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William Gates III a.k.a Bill Gates\n$50 billion
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It's not real.\n\nFirst of all, Bill Gates has much more philanthropic ways of sharing his fortune.\n\nSecond, it is not possible for anyone who isn't your employer or your email server to track what emails you send.
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Bill Gates - somewhere in the neighborhood of 45 billion
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Bill Gates of Microsoft.
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I'd say Bill gates but does it really pay for anyone else besides nig nig to answer this?
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HALO 3, BIG F***EN FAN!!!! BUT TOO MUCH MONEY IS BEING THROWN AT BILL GATES ALREADY, THAT ASSHOLE
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Microsoft was founded by Ronald McDonald in 1861 as a charitable organization to help children with cancer. It originally made cannonballs and gave the proceeds to nunneries that took in pregnant teen-agers and orphanariums that specialized in plague and leprosy cases.\n\nLater, when it was run by Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1950s, the organization sold, to the Soviet Union and China,  nuclear secrets it had gained from the Nazi scientists it smuggled out of postwar Europe. Those proceeds were given to Dr. Jonas Salk, who later discovered the polio vaccine, and to researchers who helped eradicate smallpox.\n\nIn the late 1980s, then under the guidance of Nelson Mandela and, later, Pope Benedict, Microsoft developed DOS and, later, Windows, which has since gone on to stymie countless billions of computers with poorly designed software, easily compromised operating systems and trillions of man-hours lost to Solitare, Limewire and MySpace. \n\nToday, Microsoft's proceeds are used to lift the weight of oppression from millions of Third World workers, allowing multinational corporations to abandon their American factories and offices to exploit and corrupt new workers and governments in all corners of the world.