@Peter - Absolutely -if you do don’t see concrete evidence you shouldn’t believe in God, but there are many instances of answered prayer. I give you a challenge to sincerely pray: God, if you’re realy, not the God of the Right WingNuts, but a living loving God of mercy justice __fill in the good attributes you know____, then answer this prayer or give me understanding to know why you didn’t answer it, OR give me faith to trust and believe in You anyway…

dare ya...

Also, some atheists should think about how the angels and others are viewing their hair non-styles...;’op

As an atheist, I just think anything supernatural is not real. What I believe is that humans (mostly men) wanted control and power so they told stories and created religions with all of these silly rules and rituals. Over time its has just gotten out of control. I think it is strange that a “Christian” thinks what a “Scientologist” believes is silly - they are both fanciful as far as I’m concerned. I think religion has pitted people against people for far too long. We need to be united for the common purpose of making things better for all people, ending hunger and poverty. That’s not going to happen when one group thinks their belief system is right and everyone else is wrong.

I would call this a 2 person monologue in that they both simply spend 30 minutes confirming their personal beliefs. 
Where was the discussion on “first cause”.  Where did the “pimple” come from which eventually evolved into the feather? No one I know has faith in faith.  Faith has an object.  It is based on facts.  It is not based on feelings.  The faith of the Christian is the fact that Jesus Christ claims to be God, he received worship as God.  The primary sticking point for athiests is the Resurrection.  The disciples of Christ died horrendous deaths based on their belief in the Resurrection. So either they were deceived or they were liars.  If they were deceived they were deceived by the very person of Jesus Christ who claimed to be God.  That would make Him a phoney of the highest order. The conclusion is this:  Either Jesus Christ is Lord, Lunatic or Liar.  He is not just another good person or moral teacher.  No other major religious figure ever claimed to God including Mohammed, Buddha nor anyone else. 

Richard Dawkins also lives in a world of absolutes.  He inately believes in some form of Justice.  He believes rape, murder and stealing are wrong.  And he also assumes that I too hold the same opinion on those issues.  Yet simply as a scientist he cannot explain the fact that he and every person on the planet “assumes” murder is wrong.  Even Hitler and his cronies believed murder was wrong.  That is why they spent so much time and energy trying to justify the murder of the Jews, Gypsys...etc.  Science does not explain morality and yet morality obviously exists.  That is another reason why it makes sense that a Creator exists who designed human beings in His image.

At the end of the day Dawkins lives by faith that a Creator does not exist.  He cannot prove it either way scientifically.  But then he cannot prove scientifically what I had for lunch yesterday.  That is a legal argument involving witnesses and oral or written testimony from someone who saw me eating lunch and who in turn could describe what I had for lunch.  Science is not the end all for determining proof. Again, millions and millions of people based on Faith believe in a creator who testify of His reality as well as the testimony of those who lived during His time.

Dave