The creationist is the windmill.
If you even glanced at the threads in question, you’ll know it sure as shit isn’t Ben.
FWIW, attempt at levity or no, I wouldn’t have found the Quixote comment funny had it been directed at me, especially from someone with whom I already had a “history.”
Many apologies. I have seen the errors of my ways. I shall return to areas where I know the facts…
hmmm… I don’t seem to have anywhere to go…
That’s the thing, though. I haven’t been harrassing the guy. I think he is still pissed at me for when I was a newbie and insulted him in my Evolution Mechanics thread (the second link ben posted). I apologized profusely in the same thread. Apparently he has never forgiven me.
That was eight months ago.
Later on in a thread that I can’t seem to find, I tried to explain to ben that when debating with religous people, a theological take is more effective than talking about some esoteric scientific point about geology or ribosomyl DNA and saying “HA!” when they don’t understand you. There are plenty of things in Genesis itself that contradict creationist arguments. He wouldn’t listen to this, prefering to feed his ego by basking in the knowledge that he knows an obscure piece of information that others don’t. That ain’t fighting ignorance, it’s self aggrandizement.
Shortly afterward he opened his Atheist FAQ (the third link). In that thread, I found what appeared to be an apparent contradiction and asked him to explain it. I also told him that if all his argument was going to consist of was “read this web site I wrote a few years ago”, then all he was doing was feeding his ego. Hence it would be a “vanity thread”. This peeved him to no end. Apparently, he is still bristling from this criticism even though I wasn’t the only one to chide him about not answering anyone’s questions.
It’s also ironic that he should call me out on that thread because after I asked him to elaborate on his OP, he posted this:
This, at least in my mind, is closer to an insult than “Ben Quixote”
That was last November.
Finally, I threw the “Ben Quixote” barb in when I answered Urban Ranger’s “huh?” (a question many of Ben’s OP’s elicit). It was supposed to be a small jab, almost good-natured (but not quite). It wasn’t anything I expected to wound. After this thread I’m kinda glad it did.
Ben, I have not harrassed you. I think you are an oversensitive lab rat fucker too pleased with his own intellectual masturbation to see the forest for the trees in most arguments, but I have not harrassed you. If you must view 4 or 5 mild rebukes in eight months as “harrasment” then you are a pitiable, spineless little man with glass for skin.
But you know what? You win. I will not post in any of your threads again. I used to hope that you would see that your crusade against creationists was a bit obsessive and that you were going about it the wrong way anyhow. I have given up on that hope. I used to have some respect for you, but that is gone as well. I will stop wasting my time with you.
Good bye and fuck off.