CAELew, I have missed the encounters here and many of those with whom I have jostled both pro and con.  The main reason is that I do not like the new format.  I find it stifling and sophomoric, being forced to comment on posts which might have no interest to me.  I have been in touch by reading and at times felt compelled to post.  My never ending endeavor is now, has been, and hopefully will always be in constant search of truth.  My position is accepting the method of science, which is self correcting, and whenever it is no longer supported by evidence; admits the error, corrects and adapts itself.  Religion and politics never does that.  If there is a conflict between religion and science, I side with science, fully apprised that it is well investigated, falsified, rigorously peer reviewed, and true whether one believes it or not...religion is adamant accepting beliefs as truths dated two millennium, static, and insisting dogma cannot be changed despite incontrovertible evidence. :)