We can keep banging heads I suppose so here goes again. So all opinion "arrived at by thinking atheists are arrived at by....thinking ".   Apart from , well they would say that would,nt they, possible response   , I think that the idea that positions are formed merely intellectually is a bit simplistic. For instance a good case can be made that part of the reason Darwin totally went atheist was emotional , due to family losses.       Obviously I am generalising when I use terms like atheist and scientist .....I am not going to great lengths to indicate every nuance .      As to ...faulty comprehension ..............." That is your perspective , and maybe question begging.          ".......adherence to the scientific method...."   No , I am not equating that to a belief system.   Rather questioning that evolutionism accords with it , as you cannot do observable, repeatable , testable science on the past !