I’ve been an Atheist my whole life. I find it interesting how religions work to continue existing. Especially Evangelical Christianity with their top-to-bottom duplication of the authoritative machinery of society. They have their own newspapers, radio shows, schools, colleges, text books, experts, scientists, so on. It occurs to me that a layman brought up in this system relies on exactly the same things that a layman brought up in the more naturalistic traditional system relies on.

Is there a way for a laymen that can not do research of their own to discriminate between the conclusions o…