How come God let 9-11 or the tsunami happen..
and believers don't even need proof of His existence?
How does it advance our understanding of the universe to suppose that it was created by a supernatural being who communicates only through the one-way process of revelation?
From Carolyn Porco: "Imagine congregations raising their voices in tribute to gravity, the force that binds us all to the Earth, and the Earth to the Sun, and the Sun to the Milky Way" (that almost what we do in our club, btw).
It's disturbing the extremely low level of atheism in the US. Nobody, here, asks what your religion is when hiring someone for a job.
And, btw, I do agree with Dawkins: the response to 9-11 should have been a rise in atheism, just like the answer to communism was more religious faith.