It has long seemed odd to me that dogmatic atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris felt the need to address Christians within their own idiom. This smacks to me more of psychology than principled science or philosophy.
God is a proper subject of scientific inquiry, an inquiry denuded of all religious belief, and a priori assumptions. The existence and survival of a soul likewise. These are scientific questions. Religion is separate from science, but the most important core elements need not be.
This distinction is critical to make, because until it is made scientific work in these areas cannot begin from the middle of our intellectual world, and will remain consigned to the periphery. Interesting work is indeed being done, but it is ignored by substantially everyone.
If someone could prove we survive death, would that not be worth a Nobel Prize? Why are such important topics so ignored?