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Welcome. I'm Glenn Vanderburg.

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Like James, I've spoken at every [br]one of these conferences,

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although I actually made it in person [br]last year.

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but that's ok because I didn't have a baby

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being born that weekend.

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I didn't know what James was going to [br]talk about, and because

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I was really bad about getting my topic [br]and abstract to Jim on time,

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James didn't know what [br]I was going to talk about.

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And I joked with him earlier, [br]two years ago,

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he spoke right after me, and he said

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"Wow,I have to get up here and talk and

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follow Dave Thomas and Glenn Vanderburg. [br]That's tough."

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So now turnabout's fair play

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and I knew I'd have to get up here [br]and follow James.

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I could not have asked for a better [br]set up though, because

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my talk is really nicely complementary [br]to what James was trying to say.

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James was talking about science, and

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science is what you do.

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I'm going to talk more about [br]the thinking aspects of it:

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how you evaluate the evidence [br]that's in front of you

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and how you reason through things

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and draw conclusions

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and how you go ahead and get work done

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and make decisions when you don't [br]have good evidence right now

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and things like that.

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Like James, I am a skeptic.

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Unlike James, I am a Christian.

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Some of you, in this room, I would wager,

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would think those are a contradiction[br]in terms.

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I say that by way of full disclosure

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not that this is a religious talk at all,

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but if you choose to ignore everything I say

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based on that, go ahead.

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Anyway, [br]the talk is called 'Misunderstanding'

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and it's the first in a [br]series of talks I plan to do

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that are named after good old Genesis [the band] songs.