5 bombshells some atheists are not aware of

[ThePinsir]

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

These can all be verified with a little effort (I'm not doing all the work for 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.
2. Richard Dawkins has never called himself an atheist, he actually considers himself to be agnostic.
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.
4. Darwin had little faith in fossil records ever proving his theory of Evolution, he considered them too incomplete.
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’.

Enjoy,

MM

1 - I'm about 1/2 way through that book right now. No mention of human evolution yet. Also, don't see how this is a "bombshell".

2 - On his own scale, he said he's a 6.9/7. He said he's just as sure gods don't exist as he is that fairies and leprechauns don't exist.

3 - Yep. And?

4 - Yep. I actually got to that part. The fossil record is, by its very nature, incomplete. But evolution can be proved without a single fossil, just based on DNA evidence.

5 - He also believed in astrology and Yahweh. He was a genius, but also a product of his time.