Peter Higgs on the “fundamentalism” of Richard Dawkins
The claim that Dawkins is strident, shrill and so forth has become axiomatic through simple repetition, with few people bothering to make the distinction between “being discomfited by robust challenge” on the one hand and “those strident new atheists” on the other.
“New atheists”, stridency and fundamentalism
The so-called “New atheists” now carry the apparently unshakeable tags of being militant or strident. In some cases, they certainly might be – but this has nothing to do with the truth or falsity of what they say.
