The tone is understandable when your opponent is so evasive and dodges the questions. But it leaves a bad impression of arrogance on your side.
It isn't one one thing but here are asides in your posts on this thread that add up to a bad feeling.
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1) The whole purpose of this thread is to debate, so if you are not up to it, do not waste my time with flatulent bravado. If you cannot answer either of the questions and cannot refute the material you claim to have read, you have no place addressing me.
2)Anything that takes cheap shots and fails to deal with the topic is a sign either of cowardice or of evasion. Be *my* guest. You claim to be a brother in Christ, yet here you are, failing to turn the other cheek and attacking some one who has done nothing to you. Some brother in Christ you are.
3)Talk about unsophisticated. Here you are trying to do a snow job and all you have is a flurry that's easily blown away.
4)The bankruptcy of their position is already glaringly obvious, as the lack of creationist response to this thread has demonstrated).
That might be almost all of them. It seems to me that they may well all be true. And I understand how annoying these people are. But it just feels bad. I think it also drives some of the more sensitive ones of them away and that's no fun.
Lurkers will get a bad impression of you as well. The committed creationists probably don't have the courage (and in many cases the intellect) to really ever grapple with these topics. Others may have some chance of learning something but not if you piss them off.
Remember they have their entire world view, life (eternal even) and everything all tied up in this. It is understandable that they should be more emotional. You don't have to let it be that important.
But in the meantime thanks for the good work and rebuttals.