Welcome. I'm Glenn Vanderburg.

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

although I actually made it in person 
last year.

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

being born that weekend.

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

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

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

And I joked with him earlier, 
two years ago,

he spoke right after me, and he said

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

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

So now turnabout's fair play

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

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

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

James was talking about science, and

science is what you do.

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

how you evaluate the evidence 
that's in front of you

and how you reason through things

and draw conclusions

and how you go ahead and get work done

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

and things like that.

Like James, I am a skeptic.

Unlike James, I am a Christian.

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

would think those are a contradiction
in terms.

I say that by way of full disclosure

not that this is a religious talk at all,

but if you choose to ignore everything I say

based on that, go ahead.

Anyway, 
the talk is called 'Misunderstanding'

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

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