5 bombshells some atheists are not aware of

[Chas]

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

Not one single bombshell. Is your thinking so shallow that you perceive any of those as more than mildly interesting?

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Xtians don't seem to know that Darwin believed in a creator.


One of the few things he got totally wrong.. although I'm sure that now he would gladly admit it.

I think you make a really valuable point here, and it was kind of what I hoped would get picked up from my original post.

When religious people throw ideas around such as 'Darwin said man descended from apes', we should challenge those misrepresentations. These are valuable ideas and I feel we need to be better informed in their defence. Plus they are quite fun facts.

Other interesting 'bombshells' are very welcome.

MM

I guess you don't know that Darwin wrote more than one book, for instance The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.