I'm a grown up. I can handle it if someone has different views from my own, it's not a big deal.

Your first link seems like he was just trolling. He says "intelligent design" and then defines it in a way that nobody else would.

> What he means by intelligent design is the idea that we are living in a computer simulation. We are overwhelmingly likely to be “copies” of some other humans who intelligently designed us, in a virtual reality.

That seems to have been pretty common with him. "I believe in X. And by X I mean Y. Look at all these people talking about X, aren't they stupid?"