Then forgive me, often in the past you've used that word to object to a straw-man argument against something you said, but evidently not this time. And I also was not suggesting you didn't realize all this-- it is more about what happens to our words when seen by people who already have a tendency to think scientists have the universe all figured out! What a terrible affront to science that would be, so as you know, I never miss an opportunity to point it out...