Since we're celebrating things Darwin-- with good reason-- perhaps we should be honest enough to admit that though he is often cited as patron saint by many of the atheists who grace Mudcat, he himself was no atheist--and he made that clear.

Nor were many of the other usual suspects cited in Mudcat atheists' screeds--Jefferson, Washington, Franklin.   Nor Einstein.

Paine--very likely. But he was a decidedly a mixed bag.   Many positives.   But also called Washington a coward. Being imprisoned in France did not agree with him.

And offered Napoleon a strategy to conquer the US.