I did not, as the saying goes, expect the Spanish Inquisition!

Look, mate, if a little speculation and a spot of thinking outside the box gives you dyspepsia, then I'm sorry for you. But you could have just shrugged and gone on to the next thing. Or you could have said, politely, that you didn't agree. But you jumped in guns blazing and gave me attitude, and that pissed me off, so you got attitude back. Something for which I will not apologise and do not expect you to (Rule #6).

If I wonder if folk-memories of different species of human gave rise to various myths, it has exacty the same chance of being true as does anything else. Proof will probably never be found, but the idea remains as valid as anything else we might think or say about the vast gulf that is prehistory.

Things that are not yet evidenced could still be true, just as things for which there was once incontrovertible evidence have since turned out to be untrue. Truth is as frangible and plastic as anything else, and you, sir, do not have a monopoly on it, whatever your religion decrees.