Entropy, Kalam, and First Cause

[JuliaL]

As far as I can tell, the Christian understanding of God, creation, time, space, etc fits the available data very well and explains things better than all the shaky, unknown speculation atheists propose. (of course, either way it is shaky and unknown and you are going to be making guesses that can't be proven)

Yes, the Christian understanding of God fits the available data but only because
Christians keep morphing their understanding as new data comes available. It is not
the retrodictions that show a conjecture is likely true, it is the predictions which follow.
(or more importantly, that those predictions are subsequently borne out) In this,
Christianity fails miserably.

I also find there is a bias common to most people, that is, they are more tolerant of
an incorrect claim which is confidently made rather than a correct but hesitantly
made one. I found this to be the case specifically in the practice of medicine
where doctor shopping is a problem. That is, a patient (customer) will go to the
doctor who gives an answer with the greatest confidence whether they are right or
not. It is a behavior that leads to woo and is very difficult to counter because it
requires the patient be able to correctly evaluate the opinions of the expert (doctor).
This isn't likely and would remove the need for the expert in the first place.

Christianity is nothing if not confident.