Darwin made it easy to become an intellectually fulfilled atheist (Talk.Origins)

Claim CA602.1:

By providing a naturalistic explanation of biological origins, evolution promotes atheism. "Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist" (Dawkins 1986, 6)..

Source: Berlinski, David. 1996. The deniable Darwin. Commentary 101(6) (Jun).

CreationWiki response:

While these are true they do not represents what the claim says. The claim says that “evolution promotes atheism” and “made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist". While Evolution is not necessary for atheism, nor makes atheism mandatory, it helps one to be an atheist, which is the actual point of the claim.

While this is true, Darwin’s gap was important from an atheistic point of view, since it allowed for a naturalistic origin of Man kind.

There is nothing in the claim that says there is anything wrong with being an atheist. The point of the claim is to show the atheistic nature of Evolution, not to say anything against atheist.

Actually, the only problem with being an atheist is the consequences of atheism being wrong and the Bible being right.

It is no surprise to find some people educated by schools that taught Evolution as fact, who make a profession of faith, and for a time embrace a form of creationism, only to be lead into atheism by reading some anticreationist material. This is particularly likely if the person did not really accept the Lord as Savior but may have simply recited a prayer not really believing.

Anticreation material often accuses creationists of intellectual dishonesty so it not surprising that someone lead into atheism by such material would use such an accusation as an excuse.