It depends on the target audience. For handing out at science fiction conventions, as Eliezer mentions, or for appealing to people with weak and poorly-considered beliefs in the supernatural, the mystical-sounding tone might work, while the Hanson-ish tone might just bore them into ignoring it.
For people who already fancy themselves scientific, rational-minded people the presentation would probably need to be different. i.e., if you wanted to “convert” to carefully considered rationalism a staunch atheist who rejected religion on largely emotional grounds yet thinks they’re so much cleverer than those theists.
It depends on the target audience. For handing out at science fiction conventions, as Eliezer mentions, or for appealing to people with weak and poorly-considered beliefs in the supernatural, the mystical-sounding tone might work, while the Hanson-ish tone might just bore them into ignoring it.
For people who already fancy themselves scientific, rational-minded people the presentation would probably need to be different. i.e., if you wanted to “convert” to carefully considered rationalism a staunch atheist who rejected religion on largely emotional grounds yet thinks they’re so much cleverer than those theists.