Serious scientists would do well to get better PR people out there as “the face” of science.
For instance, it makes no difference how right Eugenie Scott is - she is an admitted humanist/atheist and that is a non-starter with most lay Christians and many others who don’t trust the (conscious/unconscious) motives of those who hate God. And that goes double when they use science to promote a materialistic/naturalistic mechanism for the “origin” of the human intellect.
True. PZ Meyers with his desecrate a communion wafer silliness isn’t helping anyone. It is, however, very easy to lose your temper when people talk and won’t listen. I do it. I’m trying not to.