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At first, it would seem that being atheist lends itself to a weird ideological niche. Relatively speaking, atheism is a newer movement with a smaller and more dispersed membership. It’s not really organized or institutionalized, and not because atheists dislike organized religion (some do and some don’t care), but rather because—and this is [...]
In the first installment of this post, I started to talk briefly about the cognitive differences between atheists and people of faith (whom I will henceforth refer to as Christians, given their clear majority in the world), and I finished by asking a question that I feel I am obligated to investigate.
Though a rare occasion, I’m always surprised to meet someone who doesn’t accept evolution and natural selection. To me, these are matters of fact. The evidence is so convincing that their untruth would mean an arrantly chaotic breakdown of the world as I know it. In short, mentally devastating.