1 – Atheist
2 – Christian
3 – Atheist
4 – Atheist
5 – Lean Christian
6 – Atheist
7 – Atheist
8 – Atheist
9 – Lean Atheist
10 – Lean Christian
11 – Lean Christian
12 – Atheist
13 – Atheist
14 – Atheist
15 – Lean Christian

From the beginning, the first thing that I was looking for was misrepresentations of scientific theories and, in general, an oversimplification or misunderstanding related to some complex issue. In other words, do they have their facts right. Of course, atheists can be wrong about things, but they're usually not the same things. Christians that are ignorant will tend to display certain patterns of ignorance.

One of those things is the theory of evolution. I pointed out Answer 2 as the only person I'm certain is a Christian partly due to the strange statements concerning evolution. This person wrote, "But Darwin's theory explains how order emerges, leaving nothing for a creator God to do," Evolution does not "explain how order emerges." This the Creationist strawman of evolution, as some grand, all-encompassing explanation of reality. Additionally, they see Darwin as some sort of atheist Messiah, so when they talk about evolution, it's always 'Darwin this' and 'Darwin that.' I also tagged Answer 11 partly for the statement, "I find Darwin's discovery of the FACT of biological evolution of species from a common ancestor provides a very compelling and intellectually complete atheism." I'm at a loss as to why there is such an emphasis on evolution for an intellectually complete atheism. Couldn't this person also have talked about the Big Bang instead?

I find that I had a hard time distinguishing between the Christians and atheists that gave what I considered less than ideal answers. Well....sometimes, it was okay, like when someone mentions that they support deontological ethics, I didn't see that as evidence for them being a Christian, even though I don't go much for Kant. Or, if they were rather compromising or really moderate, that could actually convince me they were atheists too. Like, Answer 7 went out on a limb to defend religion in a sense, but the way it was done only served to convince me that he was atheist. It's hard to explain it all without writing a book I guess. I had to go on a case by case basis for the most part.

For the first question, I preferred that people initially responded with "lack of evidence for god" or "atheism is the default position" rather than the implication of "evidence FOR atheism." Several of the respondents, 3 and 4 for example, had me nearly convinced just from the first couple of sentences, from the way they reacted to the question.

For the second question, I loved it if they invented some funny specific experiences that a god should be able to do. I also loved it if they gave other possible explanations upon witnessing something they couldn't explain. However, I didn't like if they summed it up with, "I can't think of anything that would convince me." or something that effect. Answer 8's response was great.

Question 3 honestly helped me the least out of the four questions. Although, Answer 2 still managed to screw it up with irrelevant comments about sex and the emphasis on Jesus.

Question 4 was a big help in identifying knowledgeable atheists. Many produced nicely worded explanations on the origin and dominance of religion, using evolution, psychology, sociology, history, geography etc., answers 1, 4, 6, 8, 13, and 14, at least, all seem too detailed and accurate on this topic to be Christians.

I could be wrong. ^_^

1 - Christian
2 - Christian
3 - Christian
4 - Likely Christian
5 - Christian
6 - Atheist
7 - Christian
8 - Christian
9 - Christian