Scientists should advocate science. God & friends are beside the point, though. Religion in public life is more often a sock puppet, obediently speaking the li

Scientists should advocate science. God & friends are beside the point, though. Religion in public life is more often a sock puppet, obediently speaking the lines of basically non religious ideas like Catholic natural law philosophy and evangelical panic in the face of modernity. In this regard, atheism and theism are just playing the roles of competing sock puppets and you won't alter the debate by banishing God from it. It will likely just jump to another equally obliging puppet (such as arguing on the basis of what's "natural").