I am always so very curious as to why I get questions from readers about my personal life and my worldview.   I appreciate all my readers, to be sure, but it seldom occurs to me to discuss my personal beliefs here.  You'll occasionally find a smattering of something I "believe" to be true, or something I "assume" is factual, and I'll try to support it with some form of evidence.  However, it is rare that I provide details of my personal life or my personal worldview, and there are several reasons for this. Lately, I've gotten so many emails from readers (some veteran readers, others from newer ones) about what I believe and what I think about certain topics, that I can't even reader them all.  I've made a committment to try to read every email my readers send me, so this is disconcerting to me - there are too many to filter through now, so I'm going to try address some questions here in this post about some of the themes I've seen in thes...