Neil is one of my favorite people. Arguably he has done more to crater religion and prop up science than any other single person. One of my favorite bits from him was when he discussed how Isaac Newton devolved into religious thinking when he ran into the limits of his own understanding. It is a singularly powerful explanation of the human weakness for magic. If you haven't seen it, look it up on youtube.
Frankly I am shocked that anybody would diss on Neil. He has one of the least abrasive personalities I have seen in the intellectual crowd. He is the consummate anti-Hitchens.
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2005/11/01/the-perimeter-of-ignorance
Are you enjoying the responses? There can be no discussion on this and people cannot show you how you are wrong. All the political people can do is attack you for connecting yourself to a topic. Your attempt to try and help is negated by their anger. Less talky talky, more punchy punchy.