[Right Wing Professor]

I think it's remarkable in an utterly bizarre kind of way. I've never before seen a person try to win a debate by arguing he's so clueless about grade-school science that he can't understand any of it; that therefore he would have to take any scientific finding on faith; and that therefore, scientific theories are simply a matter of faith.

It truly is argumentum ad stupidum.

[Fester Chugabrew]

It truly is argumentum ad stupidum.

No. It is a failure on your part to comprehend the relationship between faith and facts. Is it not you who said "I trust my own understanding of physics?" You further mischaracterize my attitude toward learning as one of deliberate ignorance. But I should expect as much from those who fail to distinguish between immutable fact and reasonable conjecture and then set themselves up as preachers in the classroom.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Not only clueless, the rest of the creationists are supporting him by their silence. Maybe they are that clueless. It may not be wrong to assume that their religious knowledge is of the same quality as their scientific knowledge and should be treated equivalently.

[TomB]

I think it's remarkable in an utterly bizarre kind of way. I've never before seen a person try to win a debate by arguing he's so clueless about grade-school science that he can't understand any of it; that therefore he would have to take any scientific finding on faith; and that therefore, scientific theories are simply a matter of faith

Then I'll ping you to the next anti-vaccination thread. ;-)