Eight reasons you won't persuade me to believe in a god

This is not a bad read from PZ Myers over at Pharyngula, and here is an excerpt....

The case for the non-existence of god is not simply a negative one, drawn from the absence of evidence, which can be corrected by throwing in evidence for a miracle. We are atheists because we have a scientific understanding of how the universe works, and the phenomena we observe do not seem to require divine intervention to function. So sure, show me a tap-dancing Jesus poofing loaves and fishes into existence with a snap of his fingers…and I'll ask how his existence influences chemistry, how the silly bearded man matters in the last few billions of years of evolution, and why he isn't publishing in the physics journals, where his omniscient insight into the machineries of the world might be better appreciated. Even there, though, I'd question whether adding tap-dancing Jesus to the long list of existent phenomena really helps us understand anything.