[iconoclast]

I have no personal interest in evolution, why would I?

That's hardly what your home page indicates.

[Thatcherite]

That's hardly what your home page indicates.

I think you are mis-interpreting the word "interest", which is a somewhat overloaded word in english. What Alacarte means in context is that he doesn't have a vested interest in ToE that would prevent him from dropping it tomorrow if significant contradictory data were presented.

[Alacarte]

That's hardly what your home page indicates.

I have a personal interest in SCIENCE, period. If a bunch of uneducated, zealous nutters were attacking germ theory, I'd be there defending it too.