One of the most edifying outcomes to the New Atheism moment is that a certain minority of mature participants got practical demonstration of how it's frequently counterproductive to engage with a hyper-technical debate in front of a nontechnical audience. A lot of bookish elder millennials know that slogans and enthusiasm may very well carry the day, so it's better to keep your metaphorical powder dry until you can actually get a clean shot. You don't have to attend every fight you're invited to