If I were to become an atheist...

   1.  When my opponents make a good point I try to respond.  Sometimes it's difficult to find anything worth a response.  Here's one.  The statement, "not all faith is the same," is true. I'm not denying that.  Faith in something true is obviously very different from faith in something false.  Faith in something true has all the benefits I mentioned elsewhere.  Faith in something false can obviously be detrimental.  I understand all that.  What I'm trying to say is that it does not matter whether it is faith in science or faith in religion how often that faith will be in something "true" or "false."  You seem to think that when people believe in "science" they are less likely to make a mistake.  In a better world that might be true, but please notice that there is no reason for it to necessarily be true.  People acting in faith alone have an equal chance of being mistaken about religion and science.  I suspect that because people with faith in religion realize theirs is a faith they are less likely to make a mistake than people who suffer from the delusion that they "lack" faith.

   2.  We'll see.

   3.  Saying whether medical treatments "work" is not so easy as you think.  I've seen lots of people on television say they had cancer but thanks to treatments are now healthy.  It might be true, but it isn't necessarily true.  Sometimes people recover from illness without treatment.  The specific problem I see today is that the "cancer survival rate" makes it appear treatments are working better than the "cancer death rate" does.  How could there be a discrepancy?  If cancer is detected earlier and earlier then some cancer will be "cured" by treatments that would not have led to death anyway, that the patient would have recovered from even without treatments.  That is mathematical.  You like math, right?