Argument #1: Transitional Fossils

[pocaracas]

Can we try to understand where it comes from, what makes it stick in that mind and, perhaps.... find a way to spawn some form of reason in there?

I really think it could happen, but it would require a one on one setting. He is too easily able to dodge the tough questions and choose to answer the quips and prods rather than consider anything in depth.

I would really like to see him and Esquilax locked in a debate forum. I'm up for it, too---but I'd like to see Esquilax force him to engage.

You can't force anyone to engage, around here...
You can just force them to stay away.... actually, it's not you... but Esq can.

Anyway, we just keep pounding him in a way that he reads and pays a minimum of attention.
Keep the profanities to a low, because we know these people will shut down at the sight of them and talk politely.
That's my strategy, at least... In a few years, we'll see if it works...