[Alamo-Girl]

I'm so sorry to take this long to reply, dear brother in Christ! I have been swamped, as you know.

Only boneheaded dogmatists take a position -- and stick with it -- no matter what the evidence shows.

From all that I know of you and what you have done and are working on, I'm confident that you love God unreservedly and are following His leading in everything whether spiritual endeavors, family, science, archeology, community or whatever.

Every day is a learning adventure for you and with you. And that is how Christ does these things, He brings us along according to our ability and willingness:

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. - John 16:12

It would be sad for any Christian to think he has it all down pat and worse, be unwilling to see something new whether in the Father's revelation of Himself through His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ - or through the indwelling Holy Spirit - or Scripture - or His Creation, whether spiritual or physical.

[betty boop]

From all that I know of you [TXnMA] and what you have done and are working on, I'm confident that you love God unreservedly and are following His leading in everything whether spiritual endeavors, family, science, archeology, community or whatever.

I'll second that, dearest sister in Christ!!! Completely!!!

Indeed, it seems to me that my dear brother in Christ, TXnMA's foundational premise (as a man, as a scientist, as a son of God) is:

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: — Romans 20.

God's inerrant Word here, taken very much to heart by my physical chemist friend, TXnMA — who is Christian, right down to the ground.

Why putative co-religionists are finding fault with him is, to me, inexplicable.

JMHO, FWIW