He [pete] has a moral stature which I feel should be envied.

Well I don't envy it. A stature that dismisses science selectively, serially pruning out all the bits that don't fit in with his extremist, rigid view of the world, shitting all the while on hard-working, honest-to-goodness scientists with cheap, facile unthinking remarks, is not a moral stance at all, let alone one that deserves to be envied. Frankly, the man is a buffoon.