RenegadeOfPhunk wrote:*shrug* Maybe. A bit.
I suppose it might be a bit of a caricature to summarise Atkins thus:
"Science explains everything. And if you disagree, you're deluded".
...but it at least points you in - about - the right direction...
Agreed. Unless one's debate protocol is quite, quite well-rehearsed, one ends up making the occasional stupid utterance. Just hit the mental delete key and go from there, is what I do. His case, fully considered, it not much worse for wear even given that he, on a few occasions, makes such nonsensically-dogmatic statements. I attribute them to extemporaneous enthusiasm and tend to bracket them from full consideration. There's more going on than that, after all.