I am one of those engineers that you speak of. To sum it up briefly, I believe that the Old Testament is mostly filled with stories (kind of tall tales) while the important things about how to live your life the way God intended are in the New Testament. I know that frustrates people that will say I am picking and choosing what I want to believe in, but honestly that is the only way as an engineer you can look at religion analytically and still believe.

My 4 year old son will fight me for 30 minutes when I ask him to try a bite of his green beans at supper. I can only image what he would do if some strange man pulled him away from his parents and started touching him all over, he would probably be called something a little worse than "an uncooperative suspect".