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.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.