I haven't ever thought to categorize people by religion or lack thereof, so this question leaves me kind of blank. I know lots of theists and hold most of them in high regard; the ones I know have, with few exceptions, been very good people. Same for the few atheists that I am aware are atheist. I don't know that I could pick a favorite from those groups. One of my best friends is an atheist, and one of my best friends is a theist. What can I say? I attract awesome people.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
