>>Once, long ago, I had a little conversation with a Jehova's Witness that came knocking at my door. I was in the mood to chat
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>Translation: She was gorgeous. <g>
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>> so I asked some pointed questions to see what level of schooling of this person had. I quickly found out that is was almost >nonexistent. The conversation ended when - talking about evolution - one of the first things she said was "do you really think
>>that tree right there can tomorrow 'evolve' and become a monkey"? Yep. They send out their rocket scientists indeed.
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>Long time ago, there was this program "Dr LISP", if I remember correctly, where you would ask questions and the program would answer with Freudian-like phrases
That'd be Eliza. I remember playing with a shorter version of it (i.e. as much as could fit in the 8K my ZX Spectrum had then). It was interesting for about ten minutes, and then you'd see it ran out of tricks pretty fast. But with a larger database and more parsing rules in it, it could stand the Touring test for several minutes.