Off hand, I would ditto general_re’s suggestion that you guys “take it outside” - perhaps the Phoebe thread? This thread has turned up some excellent analysis and research for all of us, there is widespread peaceful discourse and thus any food fight is a distraction.
But at this moment in time I have a special request to make of you, Ichneumon. Something is troubling AndrewC and has been for several days now. And whereas he is usually one of the finest and crispiest debaters in the Creation/Intelligent Design camp – at the moment, something else is on his mind.
It really doesn’t matter what that something else is – it could be the dog died, the wife is angry or a sense of indignation – but right now, IMHO, it is best to ignore AndrewC’s posts – no matter what he says - and let him deal with things in his own way.
I’m hoping that it will not be long before both of you will want to tackle one another on science issues in brisk debate. It is a delight to read both of your excellent posts!!!
On the other hand, I've sometimes been the target of a certain poster in these threads whose posts are generally incoherent. There have been times when he was definitely stalking me from thread to thread with his rants, each addressed to me. I've actually hit the abuse button on him, twice, the last time maybe a year ago, but there was never any mod response of any kind, so in my experience the mods really don't care about unwanted pings -- even those involving incoherent, rambling, insulting, and apparently deranged posts.
What the mods really do seem to care about is being bothered by a lot of petty crapola.