utc of course atheism is a religion it attempts to answer all the big questions that other religions do and is based on a metaphysical claim incapable of empirical proof but you can quibble about what religion means all you want because the fact remains that theistic religions and atheism are all worldviews many evolutionists disagree that evolution has nothing to do with atheism e g dawkins said that darwmin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist and provine claimed that a religion was compatible with evolution only if it was for all practical purposes indistinguishable from atheism communism is predicated upon atheism mar