>>>"and just to be clear, I do not rail against scientific methods,"

Yes, you do. Constantly.<<<

Stu, I don't think he does rail against "scientific methods" It is doubtful that he understands the meaning or significance of "the scientific method" since he is using the wrong term. But clearly he is trying to use methods of science against the findings of science in some form of verbal Jiu Jitsu.

He is basically and repeatedly saying that he has found a few data points that negate all of the data points about biology that we have grown up with and experienced all of our lives. He is hoping that like Paul on the Road to Damascus, that after he undermines our "faith" in the underpinnings of "Darwinism" we will replace it with belief in "The Creator."

Oddly the same technique does not work on him. It is pretty easy to show that the Earth is more than 10,000 years old. That would alone disprove the "theory of Creation" as described by pete. But it seems that with faith in creationists and diligent reading of theri literature he has thrown up a mental roadblock against each every piece of evidence that the world is more than the combined ages of the Patriarchs of the Bible plus the time of death of Jesus to the present day.