Every year a non-commercial foundation “Evolution” together with The President’s Grant Foundation organizes the so-called “Meeting of Enlighteners” – an open forum for discussion devoted to the problems of science popularization in Russia. . The controversy of faith and persuasion was discussed during the meeting held on November, 10 in Moscow (the official page of the meeting is here). Skoltech professor Mikhail Gelfand was the moderator of discussion, while another Skoltech professor, Georgii Bazykin, was one of the participants of the discussion.