I'm afraid that, for me, the gloves have come off with pete. He is not only deluded and lacking in logic (not to mention illiterate) but he's also arrogant and disrespectful. For a start, he thinks he's in possession of absolute truth and, leaving aside anything else, that's a pretty arrogant position to take - about as arrogant as you can get!

Further up the thread I asked him a simple question; for the record:

"Why should I believe the account of 'creation' that is written in the Bible rather than the reality revealed by modern science?"

He has consistently avoided answering this question and instead demanded to know about my scientific qualifications. When I supplied him with these he belittled them and suggested that they did not qualify me to distinguish sense from nonsense. And this from a man who has no scientific background whatsoever and, by his own admission, has never read a standard, or even popular, text on evolutionary biology and who thinks that regurgitating rubbish that he has read on fringe creationist websites makes him some sort of expert on a par with the likes of Stu who has genuine, real world qualifications in evolutionary biology. We really should not be wasting our time debating anything with this fool!