5 bombshells some atheists are not aware of

[Simon Moon]

None of these are bombshells.

But you are incorrect on Dawkins, unless you want to play semantics games.

1. Darwin never once uses either the word ‘ape’ or ‘apes’ in his work ‘On The Origin of Species’, so he could never have said Humans were descendants of or shared a common ancestor with apes.

This should be more surprising to creationists.

It is true, he does not mention human evolution in 'The Origin...". He does in "The Descent of Man", however.

2. Richard Dawkins has never called himself an atheist, he actually considers himself to be agnostic.

This is incorrect. He states that he is a '6' on his "Spectrum of Theistic Beliefs" scale.

6. "De facto atheist. Very low probability, but short of zero. "I don't know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there."

3. Early on in Dawkins’ book, ‘The God Delusion’, he points out that no one can have total certainty that God does or does not exist.

This is the position of the majority of atheists.

I do not claim to know with certainty that a god does not exist. But I do not believe one does. This makes me (and Dawkins) an agnostic-atheist.

4. Darwin had little faith in fossil records ever proving his theory of Evolution, he considered them too incomplete.

So...

Darwin also got a lot of other things wrong about evolution. We've come along way in the last 160 + years since Darwin. But everything that has been discovered since Darwin has completely confirmed his central thesis, random mutation and natural selection drives changes.

Hell, he didn't even know about DNA.

5. Sir Isaac Newton had an interest in the occult, he studied alchemy and believed he would discover The Philosopher’s Stone, a material capable of turning base metal into gold. He also believed that metals ‘possessed a sort of life’.

Very true. Other than his monumental works in math, his other beliefs were batshit crazy.