who I greatly enjoy listening to (though, like it *seems* to me is the case with you, I think he's missing Trump by a country mile with his incessant stream of low-hanging-fruit criticisms). I named a shuttle craft in one of my sci-fi thrillers, Ure Infectus, after Tyson. He has his set of blind spots like anyone (myself included) but he does appear to have a better fundamental grasp of religion, as an anthropological phenomenon, than most anti-theists and theophobes who get primetime exposure (Dawkins chief among them). Even Christopher Hitchens, in a video taken at a book signing that you can find on YouTube, said flatly and without reservation (paraphrased), "Religion's not going anywhere in human affairs; it's part of what we are, and that's what makes it the most important argument we'll ever have."