5 bombshells some atheists are not aware of

[MJ the Skeptical]

Following on from a recent post in another thread I decided to drop a few very interesting bombshells.

None of which were bombshells, but continue...

These can all be verified with a little effort (I'm not doing all the work for you).

Clearly not since I'm going to correct you.

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.

We're all cousins, not just with apes, so not only does he not have to specify anything about apes, but common descent covers all lifeforms. I'm pretty he did go through apes in The Descent of man and he certainly did in other work. He did come to the conclusion that we came from a common ancestor, despite not having all the evidence we have today. It was still brilliant enough evidence to publish a book that stood as the cornerstone of modern biology until we learned more in the next century.

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

Such bullshit, he has said he is both, you can be both. I could pull up videos but I'll just link you to his site.

http://www.richarddawkins.net/foundation...ut-atheism

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.

How the is that a bombshell? you don't have to be certain to be an atheist.

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

No kidding, because there wasn't as much information in the fossil record yet, hell he didn't even know about genetics yet. But the logical inference was STILL common descent.

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’.

Did you just watch Cosmos or something? I'm willing to bet most of us already knew Newton had crackpot theories and religious woo.

Enjoy,

MM

Did not enjoy,

QT. (because writing your name at the end is so unique and original)