I hope you don&#x27;t mind my taking this post as an open invitation for anyone to reply to, but I thought I should reply as well.<p>1. I love talking to people with different beliefs.  If we have a respectful debate based on our best evidence I assume we will both learn something.<p>2. Facts are facts.  However, I think all people build world views around those facts which interpret those facts in ways that are consistent with their non-scientific beliefs.  The scientific method is just a important to me as an agnostic in terms of whether a medical procedure is safe.<p>3. See answer 2. Many Christians have no trouble with evolution.  It was discovered by an Anglican after all.  It&#x27;s true that Darwin lost his faith over the discovery, but after a few years, many Christians just incorporated it into their faith.<p>4. It is very hard to prove historical facts, but there is good evidence for many arguments (like the resurrection for example; or that the King James Bible was developed by a committee). I think for many Christians, good historical scholarship is fundamental to the sorts of things that they now believe.  This works both ways; however.  For example, after the Divinci Code came out I was able to quickly discard the sorts of claims it made because the evidence was so bad.  Similarly, Richard Dawkins should not give up his day job to become a biblical scholar since he doesn&#x27;t seem to have the knack for it.<p>Cheers