““Fifth, I think that you [Daniel Dennett] and Richard are absolute disasters in the fight against intelligent design — we are losing this battle, not the least of which is the two new supreme court justices who are certainly going to vote to let it into classrooms — what we need is not knee-jerk atheism but serious grappling with the issues — neither of you are willing to study Christianity seriously and to engage with the ideas — it is just plain silly and grotesquely immoral to claim that Christianity is simply a force for evil, as Richard claims — more than this, we are in a fight, and we need to make allies in the fight, not simply alienate everyone of good will." "William Dembski. "Remarkable exchange between Michael Ruse and Daniel Dennett" " 2006””
![“Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is…” quote by Michael Ruse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1db/michael-ruse-35791_atheist_their-the-new-atheists-treatment-of-the_1955646.jpg)
