The typical “New Atheist” tack is to ridicule religious belief while touting their own intellectual superiority. However this is just unsubstantiated boasting. Not only are there numerous contemporary philosophers and scientists who strongly disagree with their views, but the arguments offered by people like Dawkins and Hitchens are very poor. Willliam Lane Craig does a great job of pointing this out:
A man can be a perfectly good scientist, expert in the field of say biology, while being a complete amateur in things like logic and metaphysics.
Hence, the claim that the New Atheists have this sort of intellectual high ground is simply false.
