Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?