New Atheism is Old Hat. 

I recently started an Anthony Flew fan club on Facebook. Anthony's paper on Atheism is the most cited philosophical paper in academia. Flew, notably, changed his mind and has become a Deist, and if I'm not mistaken, is considering the claims of Christianity closely under the tutelage of Bishop of Durham N. T. Wright. There is a wonderful Appendix in Flew's book, There is a God. Your public library has it. The weakness of the New Atheists is that their arguments are not informed by the history of philosophy and the latest science. Hitchens most recent appearance, in Boulder, was just rhetorical shots and stylish interruptions of D'Souza, not substantial argument. Dinesh has called him on this. He has charged, and to his credit, Hitchens has admitted, that his stance is not so much atheist as it is anti-theist. But the reason for his anti-theism is not philosophical, it is personal devotion to his "right" to sin without condemnation. I see Hitchens intends to debate John Lennox at www.fixed-point.org. Lennox, a mathemetician and Oxford colleague of Dawkins, wiped the floor with Dawkins in their debate. Interesting times.