Last week I had a treat. I got to listen to PZ Myers speak not once, but twice. As a fan of his blog this was something I was looking forward to. Both of he speeches where great and informative on science and communicating science. But his passion and message for science was marred by his militant atheism. Which is a shame since the people that most needed to listen to his information where the ones that where most turned off to his message.
Dr. Myers is a staunch atheist, it is core part of his personality and he makes no apologizes for this personal belief. But his personal belief should be received differently then his science and what he has to say about it. The ones that most needed to hear what science is and how it describes the world and the life on and within it where the ones most turned off by his atheism. This is unfortunate, since the science can exist without atheism, unlike their own personal beliefs.
In the future I would hope that PZ Myers would relax on his atheist outlook when giving these lectures so that the message of science would spread further, its seeds implanted in more minds to sprout and grow. Maybe in the future he will, until then I will still gladly take what insight into science that PZ Myers provides.
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