If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows you to admit the existence of the Devil. If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.