The more antagonistic members of the New Atheist movement who embrace this idea are not only employing bad history, but also the kind of rigid, black-and-white thinking they excoriate in their religious opponents. Yet Darwin did not see evolution as a linear progression to an improved state of being. Religion, according to the New Atheists, should be relegated to the Dark Ages of superstition and senseless violence. They have posed as harbingers of human progress, claiming the moral high ground, and rejecting with intolerance any message that challenges the hegemony of science and reason. But they have also embraced it as a metaphor for the gradual replacement of religious faith with secular reason. Leaders of the New Atheist movement have taken Darwin's work and used it to diminish the authority of religious institutions and belief systems.
The concept of evolution is widely considered to be a foundational building block in atheist thought.
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