You don't know what you are missing, gnu. It has even been described as "Excellent discussion of opinion/faith/evidence/theory".

Doug, the opening statement, after a preliminary which will not make sense unless you knew that an earlier thread was deleted, is "I have been told that I am not entitled to an opinion unless I can back that opinion up with facts. I do not believe this to be true." The two opinions expressed were examples, nothing more. If you chose to try and make something of that, feel free, but it is an irrelevance.