There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.