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I am of course, not leaving as I will read and post as time permits.The main motivations I had for my active participation were due to three factors. First, the daughter was being taught improperly at the junior high level. One teacher, just recruited from teaching kindergarten, became a science teacher and she told the class evolution was false. Another teacher in history or geography, stated she did not believe the Bering land bridge ever existed. I offered to contest these teachers but the daughter said she liked the history teacher and considered it a minor slip and the entire class of the science teacher agreed with her and therefore could not be counted on for honest testimony. Remember this is West Texas, home of the largest presence of the KKK outside of the deep south (according to one instructor at UTPB).A second factor was due to one of my best employees, the very capable computer guy, proselytizing a 6k year old earth due to his 7th day Adventist religion at work. Talk about some arguments! After countering the usual Hovind PRATTs with powerful, if not convincing to fanatics, retorts, I found I did not have an immediate reply to his assertion that various flying dinosaurs were incapable of flight due to the bone to mass ratio. The answer (if incapable of flight, why do the fossils show hollow bones?) I discovered and along the way discovered this site. Well, finally we agreed to disagree (or I simply forbade them, after all such argumentative discussions are inappropriate at work).Third, and most important, I was unable to continue my additional graduate studies due to demands placed upon me by my mother's long and finally fatal slide into dementia. Hungering for intelligent conversation, I found a partial substitute here.Well, the kid is now an adult, soon to graduate with double majors if not degrees in math and chemistry from UTPB, where she became an officer in the Secular Alliance and Gay/Straight Alliance. Now she most certainly needs no support from me in challenging anti-science, anti-progressive, and anti-intellectual positions. Unfortunately, my 7th has congestive heart failure, and his capacity to sustain the ability to perform for further full time employment is coming to a close. And now I am back in grad school part time and simply do not have as much psychological need or recreational space for this site.At any rate, keep up the good work. I will be back time to time, just (as I am sure is to the relief to many) not as much.