Here is a selection of the questions Sam and God discuss, and ones about which you will have to make up your own mind:

• What do you hope to achieve in your lifetime? Does belief in God play a part in that purpose?
• Make a list of the ways in which it is right to think of yourself as being important. In what ways are you unimportant?
• Do you believe in evolution-that you came from animals, and that they originally came from slime?
• Does the theory of evolution mean that you are just an animal?
• Are you just a pile of atoms?
• Do you believe that some of your behavior might be governed by an inborn animal instinct? In particular, are you and other people inclined to be selfish by nature?
• What would it mean to be made in the image of God?
• What do you think is the more likely: the universe has been especially designed as a home for intelligent life; or that our universe is one of many universes, most of which do not support life?
• Is life just an accidental freak of nature?
• Do you think there is life on other planets? If so, does that make human beings less important?
• Does it matter whether the miracles described in the Bible actually happened? How important is this to you?
• Does it matter whether God performs miracles today?
• What makes for true happiness-lots of money, fame, success-or something else?
• Have you ever sensed the presence of someone you could not see?
• Is it possible to sense the presence of God in a garden, or on a starlit night?
• Is there any point in going to church?
• Is it important to learn about religion from other people as well as from your own experience, in the same way as you learn science?
• Do the world religions contradict each other, or are they simply talking about the same God in somewhat different ways?
• Is God able to speak to you through other people?
• Is the voice of conscience nothing more that what your parents and teachers drummed into you when you were young?
• In a truly loving relationship, might it sometimes be necessary to say no to the other person's requests? Might it sometimes be necessary to let them manage on their own for a while?
• Why do you think there is evil in the world?
• Do you think there would be more or less evil in the world without religions?
• Without suffering there is no proof of love; do you agree?
• Do you think sex is just about having a good time, or is there more to it than that?
• What kind of person do you think you would become if sometime you had to suffer a lot?
• Do you think there could be life after death?
• How should belief in an afterlife affect the way you live this life?
• What would be your idea of Heaven?
• Is there a Hell? How could it fit in with belief in a loving God?