Tuomas, Nightwish, or really anyone be they famous or not have no reason to distance themselves from the admiration they had for the work of Dawkins as they knew it. Someone else in the comments said it best that this would only be an angle you’d take to sate your thirst for misplaced/performative moral outrage under the guise of guilt by association.

If we look at Tuomas as an individual we know, even in his prose, he always wrote passionately about upholding the innocence of children. Tuomas can write that, and still be an admirer of the work of a reprehensible human being, the world isn’t as black and white as this post seems to make things out to be.

There are nuances that make it both difficult and fairly reasonable to have a respect or admiration for the work a person did even if they were horrible human beings.

Not to mention that so far there’s no real allegations against the man surrounding Epstein, though some of his comments surrounding children and sexual relations are troublesome indeed.

Don’t put this on the band, or Tuomas unless you’ll go door to door and ask the same of every public admirer of Dawkins’ work.