The "rationality-loving Western tradition of thought" has given us cures for diseases, crops that feed 7 billion people, worldwide communications, and machines that fly, travel to other planets, even drive themselves. Those are pretty good reasons to trust that way of making sense of the world.
And your closing remark just sounds like an attack on the pitch of his voice, further weakening your argument, such as it is.
And your closing remark just sounds like an attack on the pitch of his voice, further weakening your argument, such as it is.