The rudeness was in not pinging him -- it is FR etiquette.
And of course, evoids are hardly the ones to give lectures on "rudeness."
Please don't make me prove that when it comes to insults, CR/Iders throw them early and often. Those of us who understand TToE actually show amazing restraint in the face of straight insults, ad hominem "reasoning," non sequitur "logic," guilt by association and pretty much every logical fallacy in the book.
The so-called "Christians" are the worst and most vituperous of the bunch.
Those of us on the science merely are exasperated with willful ignorance. If we use a little sarcasm to make our point, at least it is based in logic.
"The rudeness was in not pinging him -- it is FR etiquette."
There was no rudeness intended. I've never pinged anyone before, and didn't know that "rule." However, the evo-fanatics engage in real, intentional, savage rudeness and outright insults on almost every page of these threads, like implying their opponents are posting while on drugs, sneering at their qualifications to engage in debate, etc. etc.
Much of the ignorance you ascribe to others is merely an arrogant pretext for dismissing them. Ignatz is an example: obviously an intelligent and literate guy, but one who refused to bow down and worship the evoid elite, so he had to be trashed by your allies.
In fact, revulsion at the nasty rhetoric (indistinguishable from that of the Left) from the evo-obsessed, and at the insults heaped on believers, is about the only reason I post anything on these threads. Neither side ever changes its position, and the issue is hardly a central one for most conservatives. These evo threads are a waste of bandwidth.