The guy's got some perceptual problems. He noted (#1769) that:
My own two cents here. According to our present knowledge, whatever may have existed before the BB -- if anything -- was crushed to plasma;
Maybe you should offer to tell him how old the world is after he explains how anything could be "crushed to plasma", frozen into a gas, melted into a solid, or anything else like that.
Here's a link to a Google search on Ted Holden. Over 55,000 hits. Virtually every site (except his own) claims the guy is the biggest flake in cyberspace. Now, what made me bring that up?