I think we've really started going off on about a zillion different tangents, myself included. I don't really think this at any point was meant to get off into the various side discussions about the verity of any particular religion, but was meant in more of the general vein of "Is there a deity?" I'm glad Ralath brought up the terms null hypothesis and statistical language. That's really the easiest way to phrase/structure the question.
In fact, doing a little looking around, I stumbled upon this little site:
A Null Hypothesis for Religion. It's a nice little read. The only thing that I can point to that doesn't jive is that OBJECTIVE: Ministries is a satire site, but I'm not surprised he didn't get it at first. It doesn't give a nod and a wink to the reader like a lot of satire.
Also, having something like this on hand is handy:
http://books.google.com/books?id=0Gu...snum=5#PPA2,M1
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