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Am I an atheist checklist...:

•Do I believe in evolution? ✔️
•Do I believe in natural selection?✔️
•Do I believe gene mutations are completely random?........................... no check.
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SW-User
Atheism has nothing to do with any of those things you listed. You can be an atheist and reject evolution. It isn’t common, but certainly not contradictory.

When someone identifies as an atheist, it simply means they reject the God claim. You cannot surmise anything beyond that.
GardenSage · 36-40, M
@SW-User missed the point.
SW-User
@GardenSage I’m simply correcting a common misconception that many people have (including yourself, evidently).

You say in your conversation with ChipmunkErnie “I cannot be an atheist for there is so much we do not know”. This doesn’t make any sense, however. Atheism isn’t a position of knowledge, it’s a rejection of a proposition.

Perhaps you have a misconstrued idea of what being an atheist actually means.
GardenSage · 36-40, M
Perhaps you’re still missing the point and it frustrates you because you need to think you’re intellectually superior. Perhaps I’m not outlining the criteria of what could make one atheist but using a common thought process by atheists to allude to an entirely other point. But you clearly lack abstract thinking and only seek to correct what your narrow perception concludes is wrong.@SW-User
GardenSage · 36-40, M
@SW-User perhaps examine what I could be implying by not checking the third box. Then realize that you’re an idiot and stop correcting people because you look like a baffoon.
SW-User
@GardenSage I’m fully aware of the point you’re trying to make, which is why I take issue with the fact you mentioned atheism at all.

“a common thought process by atheists”. That’s what I take issue with, because I don’t think that’s true in the slightest. Evolution and atheism have no connection. Your question would be better served by not conflating the two.

To address your point. You seem to accept that some mutations are random and others aren’t. But how are you distinguishing between the two, and what’s driving the mutations you deem to be “not random”?