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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.