even i know that natural selection does not "explains the whole of life on earth..."steve.
and on a previous post you said yourself that the theory has gaps and full stops.

Oh yes it does. All of it, all the diversity, the beauty, the complexity. Natural selection explains all that very elegantly and it does it by making very few assumptions. All you need is time, and four and a half billion available years has sorted out that issue. Certainly there are gaps in the fossil record and there's plenty of evidence of evolutionary dead-ends, but that's all grist to the mill. Natural selection cannot be undermined. You need to look into this far more than you do. It's wonderful and it's impressive.

"atheism is the crutch leaned on by those not wanting to face the reality of God"

It's hard to see how, in this religion-infested world, in which in some circumstances it can even be quite brave to come out as an atheist, atheism can ever be described as a "crutch." Atheists reading your post will be thinking how arse about face you have this. Hows about "God is the crutch leaned on by deluded people who are not wanting to face reality"?