Evolution is not part of atheism.

Atheism is simply the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs." The debates about whether Evolution is a part of Atheism, not your disrespectful to some bias towards religion and your opinion they are all unjustified, regardless of its truth or not. Now you say that Atheist are "reasonable". This is true and Atheist need a "reason" not to believe in a God. Perhaps the Atheist doesn't believe because his Mom died and he's mad at God or life doesn't go his way or some Christian hurt his feelings, either way its a reason. I would like to think that most people require some intellectual reasoning behind their belief. Being mad at a god doesn't make much since for an Atheist, intellect must have reason. Evolution offers the intellectual satisfaction an Atheist requires to continue denial of God(s), specifically the most popular and widely accepted religious beliefs of Christianity, Judaism, and Muslim. Evolution directly combats the creation accounts recorded in these sacred writings and for an Atheist view to be correct the other views must be incorrect. "Evolution is deeply rooted in strong scientific evidence, atheism is the realization that most people who blather on about religion are cracked and more swayed by what they want to be true rather than the evidence". I disagree and fail to see how this isn't just religion bashing? Refer to my other Evolutionary debates if you like, but lets stick to topic. I don't think you represent Atheism well to say you only believe or should I say don't believe because a few religious people you encountered are "cracked" and swayed by what they want to believe. Atheism wants more base and needs more base, evolution offers some base. "While many and perhaps even most atheists accept the theory of biological evolution that doesn't make it part of atheism. Many atheists believe the sky is blue and that gravity makes things fall to the ground. Are the theories of optical light scattering and gravity therefore atheistic?" The sky being blue, gravity, and optical light do not directly come into conflict with Religion and are more than a Theory. Evolution is a part of Atheism for two reasons. 1.It can be used to combat opposing religious views and (offends,attacks) 2.It can be used to support Atheism. (defends,protects) Anything that can be used to do the above two actions is and should be a part of Atheism. Atheism is a belief system (unbelief system) and it needs a defense and an offense for "reasonable people" to accept, Evolution does both roles. "Michael Ruse doesn't speak for me and for the most part he arguments are poor to say the least. Some people may be eager to explain all of life on this planet without needing to genuflect to the divine, but that doesn't make evolution part of atheism anymore than many atheists love for the music of John Lennon makes music atheistic." My opponent says Michael Ruse, a prominent Atheist, doesn't speak for him. This may be true but he does speak for Atheism in as much or more so than my opponent. The debate asks if Evolution is part of Atheism not if it is part of my opponents belief. I could say I'm a Christian but don't believe in a world wide flood or Creation...BUT...the majority of Christians do believe in these things, society believes they believe those things, and the sacred writings of Christianity says those things. The same is true with Atheism society believes them to accept evolutionary theory as a way of combating opposing views. Many Atheist themselves believe Evolution is important to their unbelief system, which is documented. Society assigns stereotypes to groups of people, and the stereotype that Evolution is part of Atheism is shared widely by the majority of Atheist and the general population. Some stereotypes are incorrect and some are absolutely correct. This stereotype is correct regardless of my opponents minority opinion. The below link is from American Atheists website, which is affiliated with nearly every prominent Atheist group in the United States. The link shows The American Atheists combating creationism and other opposing belief systems with none other than Evolutionary Theory. http://www.atheists.org... My opponent says Atheism existed before evolutionary theory. To some degree this is true but the Atheism we know today came around about the same time or after evolutionary theory came around. It is also important to note that Evolutionary Theory was simply explained scientifically by Darwin but the belief that life on Earth evolved with-out a God was around prior. The belief was also held by, none other than, Atheist. http://en.wikipedia.org...