I don't know if he's an atheist, but another evolutionist who often receives very skeptical treatment from other evolutionists is Hoot Mon, now going by the moniker Fosdick the Fearless.
It will be interesting to see Agobot's response, but it was already obvious to everyone he was talking through his hat. People don't agree with other people because they share a label, not even close. If they did then all people sharing the Christian label would agree with one another and there'd be only one Christian church, probably Catholic with Martin Luther its greatest saint. I must add, though, that it was certainly very interesting to see John 10:10 and Bertot declaring their mutually exclusive viewpoints to be in agreement back in the Friggin' Confident thread. So though there will be no examples of atheists agreeing with one another simply because they're fellow atheists, examples abound of Christians trying to paper over differences (until suddenly there's another church in town
).
There's an interesting book by Guy Harrison called
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God. I don't plan on reading the book, but I did listen to Harrison being interviewed by D. J. Grothe on the Point of Inquiry podcast. Interestingly, the reasons given for believing in God were pretty much the same no matter which God or gods (Christian, Islam, Hindu, etc.) were believed in. Being surrounded by a community of other true believers apparently provides enormous confidence, and the evidence cited is pretty much the same, such as it's common knowledge, everyone believes this, they feel God's presence, they've experienced miracles, life is just so incredible, their scriptures are obviously true, etc.
Clearly, religious people around the world tend to agree about the nature of the evidence, but they strongly disagree about which God that evidence supports. Atheists, too, display a wide range of disparate opinions, but not about the major points of science, which having been established through real-world observations thereby correspond to the real world, and the real world is what it is.
There's really no point in disagreeing with the real world that science uncovers for us, atheists for the most part understand this very well, and this is why Agobot sees atheists agreeing with each other on matters of science. But his filter causes him to fail to notice that religious scientists agree with each other and also with atheists on matters of science. There
*is* a common element, but it's not atheism, it's science.
--Percy