Some years ago, a prenatal echogram found a break in my son's intestines. A few hours after his birth, doctors operated to fix the problem. He lived in Intensive Care for the next two months, until he was healthy enough to come home.
I owe my son's life to medical science. So I believe scientists should be free to work without harassment, to find a cure for cancer, for Alzheimer's, for AIDS. Yet scientists are often compelled to turn away from their research to defend scientific theories against the latest religion-inspired attack, first from Creationists, lately from Intelligent Design and Young Earth proponents like you. Worse, religion has recently begun to attack scientific research, the very core of the scientific enterprise, by inhibiting stem-cell research, for example. Religion-inspired attacks on science make me angry.
Questioning science is your right; it's an exercise of the freedom of thought and speech we Americans enjoy. Questioning your religion is my right. So I wrote A Counterfeit God: An Unbeliever Looks At Jesus to question the religious beliefs that cause you to question science. After two thousand years there is no doubt that Jesus was wrong about his imminent Second Coming. He is wrong about other things, too.
To read my book, you'll need enough faith to take truth itself as your authority - rather than passively accepting the authority of Bible, or preacher, or Pope as truth.
You'll need to realize that comforting myths can be spoon-fed, but truth must be won.
You'll need enough self-confidence to let go of the security blanket of Bible, preacher, and Pope, and examine your religious beliefs, perhaps for the first time in your life, in the purifying light of critical inquiry.
My book is not for the weak and timid. And it's certainly not for the spiritually gutless.