A recent online article by Adam Frank - an astronomer from the University of Rochester in New York state - waded into the huge current debate over the «new atheism» espoused with «
evangelical fervour» by such advocates as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens etc..
Beginning life as a convinced young
Evangelical, he gradually adopted the Tractarian High Churchmanship promoted by Keble and Newman, before embracing, with all possible
fervour, the Ultramontane, Italianate Catholicism introduced into England by Cardinal Wiseman.