You are correct. The religious types will always jump saying evolution/darwin is racist etc. But Atheists and Evolutionists know for a fact we were all black at one point, and our skin colour changed to adapt to our environments.
Right wing Christians are always the ones involved in racist...
In the simplest terms, it's a server side programming language that allows you to create bits of code to perform specific functions. Like connecting to a database and spitting out the results into an HTML page.
LOL, I can't believe people would even recommend frontpage. No doubt people who don't actually do professional web design.
Dreamweaver creates better code from the WYSIWYG, but if you're looking to learn web design/dev, then you're going to have to learn how to hand code. Even Dreamweaver will...