5 bombshells some atheists are not aware of

[John V]

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.

I didn't know this one. I disagree that it can be verified with little effort. You'd have to read the entire book.

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

I disagree with this one:

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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.

Not exactly a bombshell.

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

I knew these, but they may be surprising to some.