A good post, Virginian. Now put on your Nomex fire suit, because the children are going to flame you for the rest of the day, or until some other shiny object distracts them.
Long and short, I stated my view based on reason and fact, and then that was that. As Thomas Paine stated:β βTo argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.β