Thanks.

I do understand better now, and I think the world probably needs people like you who are vigilant about keeping science unbiased -- it would be a much worse world, from my perspective, if we ceased to have science at all.

I also appreciate your courtesy over the past few days. I sometimes have trouble accepting and listening to skeptical perspectives; I'm learning to accept that ideas with a skeptical/critical/realist tone can be very valuable, but it does run against the grain for me, and I think I didn't handle myself very well. At any other web forum, this would have been a feud between us. So I appreciate your patience and your explanations.