Personally, I believe Pete needs to be taken more seriously than most of you are.

As annoying,tedious, and specious as Dawkins can be, he understands something critical, and that is that Pete and his sort have the intent of destroying all of the scientific discoveries and intellectual advances that we have made in order to impose their own religious ideas of the rest of us.

Pete is no scientist, and yet he purports to offer "scientific" refutations--of course such likes as Musket, Steve Shaw, The Snail, and even lovable JtS recognize that he juggles half-truths, misrepresentations, over-generalizations, and such things to advance his case, and that he has no credibility.

The thing is that a lot of people didn't really "get" science, and Pete, who really makes no logical sense, resonates with them, and the fact that he pounds on the Bible gives him credibility.

By carrying on with this discussion, you're giving Pete a forum to attack science, reason, the pursuit of knowledge, and, by extension, yourselves.

It doesn't pay to fool around with these people--when they get control of things, "Love thy neighbor" goes right out the window.