Perhaps I should explain better.
We address what skeptics say simply by teaching the Bible.
Not by addressing their idiotic comments directly as if equal in value.
Butts makes a mistake in attributing so much space to skeptic “positions” and quotes when it is not necessary.
The subject of what the cursing of the fig tree means is more than enough and contaminating it with nonsense that is unnecessary just detracts and weakens the apologetic.
I liken to putting on the full armor. No one needs to defend the Bible to skeptics, just like no one has to defend that a sword is a sword.
But we do need to teach each other how to use the sword, but don’t need to argue with skeptics that our sword can function as a sword.
“So much space” ???
A couple of lines or so, and then quite a lot on the real background.
Sounds like proper proportion. You are just being puffed up... confess it!