He is just as much a layperson as you are. He can use terminology but that doesn't mean he understands it. He's proved that he often doesn't. Often the only thing he can say about things like homology or oncology is "ha! I don't believe it, therefore it's problem for evolution, therefore creationism is right!"


I only get wound up here when people use the tactics I mentioned to you: denying evidence, dodging the question, making personal insults, using logical fallacies, not supporting their own claims, etc. I'm working on not getting wound up at all because that's what they want. None of this is good debate technique. Have they said anything that winds me up because I'm stumped by it and see it as a problem for evolution? No. Nothing here poses a threat either. Threat to what? Well, maybe to sanity at times, but that's about it.


Since when was it nit-picking to point out scientific inaccuracies, especially when those inaccuracies are meant to be used as evidence that a scientific theory is wrong?

There are others on the mercury forum, who have never talked here but who have observed either publicly or privately that the language used by some people here (not you or Russ, nor me) is disgracefully insulting. I hesitate to suggest that you don't see it because you like the things they are saying and you like the evolutionists being put in their place, but it has to be said that I find it wearing. A moderator would pare this out and keep things focused on the issues, but I don't think that's on the cards with Russ.