You have never offended me and have no need to apologize though I appreciate the sentiment I believe Wikipedia ought to be an egalitarian environment where people s contributions should be evaluated based on the quality of the research and not the qualifications of the researcher But if you are asking I owe you an answer I have a PhD In anthropoogy I am a cultural anthropologist which one could number among the historical or human sciences As part of my training I had to have a fair but by no means technical grasp of the theory of human evulution the fossil evidence for human evolution and primate behavior I also have fair knowledge of the scientif knowledge e g what is the difference is between a pradigm theory hypothesis and fact some basic knowledge about sampling and the difference between precision and accuracy and validity My own interests have lead me to read a good deal about the Bible and Biblical history Really I do not think that one s background should be an issue here except in the most technical of cases The only advantage I think I have over many other contributors is that I have a fair idea of what kind of scholarly literature is out there and how to tell the difference between good scholarship and bad scholarship