5 bombshells some atheists are not aware of

[Lemonvariable72]

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.

Of course not, Darwin did mention that he believed human ancestors would be found in africa, but not until later.

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

In the traditional sense of the term we are. Is this a Ode to thomas huxley I wonder.

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.

Of course the uncertianty princple applies.

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

Of course, fossilizaton is a rare event and even worse it virtually never happens in come environments. For example, we have no chimpanzee foosils except a few teeth.

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’.

Newton was out to lunch, you forgot his anger issues too. But in his defense the guy once created a new branch of calculus in one morning just to solve a trivial math problem sent to him by a friend for fun.

Enjoy,

MM

Oh I did, I did.