If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.