Does it make you guys even more important in each other's eyes to constantly ridicule someone not here to defend themselves?
No, since that's not why we're doing it, but feel free to jump to *more* bizarre conclusions about our motivations any time you please. It only reinforces the ludicrousness and hypocrisy when you write snotty stuff like:
"Amazing how you can know the thought process of every written word by others. Even when a statement might be read more than one way, you always know the intent of the author."
Is that the scientific ethic at work?
No, it's guys talking about a post. Confused much?
As if your egos could tolerate any more masturbatory input.
We'll have to defer to you on that, you being the expert on such things.
It's no wonder you are held in such high esteem by your opponents.
Yeah, yeah, sure sure, it has *nothing* whatsoever to do with the fact that we constantly catch them posting falsehoods and misrepresentations and flubs, and provide documentation of their blunders, and how we defend a field (evolutionary biology) that they consider to be the Devil's work, drawing souls to damnation. It's actually about our *attitudes*. Yeah, that *must* be it...
Where ridicule is needed is cases where someone defends the indefensible, or continues asserting things that are beyond mere ignorance.