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Welcome. I'm Glenn Vanderburg.

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

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although I actually made it in person 
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 
talk about, and because

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

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

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And I joked with him earlier, 
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. 
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 
and follow James.

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

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my talk is really nicely complementary 
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 
the thinking aspects of it:

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how you evaluate the evidence 
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 
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
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, 
the talk is called 'Misunderstanding'

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

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