RE: Neil Degrasse Tyson
August 14, 2015 at 7:58 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2015 at 9:10 am by Alex K.)
(August 14, 2015 at 5:29 am)Napoléon Wrote: But NDT is a scientist first and foremost and personally I only pay attention to what he says in the field he has actual expertise in.
On a side note, I've never thought of NDT as being associated with the 'atheist' movement. More with the pro-science and skeptical thinking crowd, but not necessarily atheism.
I'd say he is a science communicator first and foremost, and that is his priority (I don't know how much actual research he does nowadays, I'd guess not a lot), and he has obviously decided that wearing the atheism label would be a hindrance for that work (if he even agrees with it), and that is perfectly understandable.
He reaches people others with more overt atheistic attitudes do not reach as easily. He can talk to the partly very religious black community and use his ties there to bring science literacy to places where a Dawkins-like science communicator would not reach.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
