Chuck Easttom

William C. Easttom II (also known as Chuck Easttom) is a computer scientist and author of several computer science books. He is well known on the internet for his comments on God and Religion, found in Wikiquotes.
Biography
Easttom was born to a military family and spent much of his childhood in various locations including Thailand and Europe. After high school and a term of enlistment in the US Army he went to college where he was named to the National Dean's List. He has Bachelor's and Master's degrees as well as additional graduate studies in mathematics and computer science. Since college he has pursued a career in computer science that has included teaching, software engineering, network security, and authoring several computer books. During that time he has been a frequent guest speaker on computer science topics.
* Easttom has authored several computer science books on topics ranging from Linux to to network security. His textbooks on network security have been translated into several languages and are used in universities around the world. Two of those books are university textbooks from Prentice Hall's Pearson Education branch:
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<li>Intro to Security
<li> Network Defense And Counter Measures
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* Easstom's computer science books have been cited in numerous research papers including
1. Adding information assurance to the curriculum - Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 22 , Issue 2 (December 2006) Richard Weiss
2. Taming the diversity of information assurance & security - Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 23 , Issue 4 (April 2008) J. Paul Myers, Sandra Riela
3. Effect of Windows XP Firewall on Network Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Volume 4, 2007 Al-Rawi(King Faisal University Saudi Arabia) ,Lansari(Zayed University UAE)
4. Assessing Risks of Policies to Patch Software Vulnerabilities Radianti, Sveen, Gonzalez
5. A study of efficient avoidance in the event of DNS(domain name system) failure - Proceedings of the 8thConference on 8th WSEAS International Conference on Automation and Information - Volume 8 Lin, Hwang, Lin.
6. Practical computer security: a new service course based upon the national strategy to secure cyberspace David W. Valentine
* He has also been an expert witness on various court cases involving computer related topics
* Easttom worked with the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) as a subject matter expert helping to create their certification. He also worked with CompTIA on their , , and certifications.
Quotations by Easttom
Religion
Easttom has been quoted many times on different issues regarding religion. One particular quote by . Easttom has gained quite a bit of notoriety on the web:
God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be tortured for eternity in hell. That's not free will. It's like a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to leave me, I will track you down and blow your brains out. When a man says this we call him a psychopath. When god says the same we call him "loving" and build churches in his honor.

Easttom has also been very public in his atheism and his reasons for being an atheist.
Creationism
Easttom has written a treatise on the creationism-evolution debate. This treatise has gained quite a bit of popularity on the web.
He has been quoted as saying:
"Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life....but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right."

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