There are a bunch of claims that are easy for CS/IDers to find out there on the web. They are debunked in numerous places on the web, but time after time people who don't believe in evolution go to those sites and come charging into these threads like they found something new.
Most folks here are pretty polite--the first few dozen times they correct the same errors, but eventually patience grows thin. I think you may have arrived at just that time.
One of my specialties is radiocarbon dating, and you would not believe the number of times people go to the same anti-evolution sites and "discover" the magic bullet which will destroy the whole field in one shot. After I see the same thing a dozen times, even I get testy.
The problem is, it is often the same people, on different threads, making the same errors--even after being told the other side of the story--they have to be repeating the same errors deliberately. Most scientists hate errors more than almost anything else, so the reception can be a little sharp.
Anyway, I hope that explains a bit about where you have fit into the discussions here.
Thank you, coyoteman, for the gentle reply. But is verbal abuse a good way to convince people?
I got on this thread in the beginning because I was concerned to read that Intelligent Design scientists were being persecuted.
The actions taken against them by academics and the mainstream media do not look good to the public. It looks like totalitarian thought control.
If their research leads to nothing then evolution theory will have been strengthened. On the other hand, if they come up with some valid discoveries, we all benefit.
In the spirit of free enterprise, may the best ideas prevail.