The number of religious 'nones' has soared, but not the number of atheists. Why? (opens in new tab)

Evolution doesn't assume "DNA from nothing," rather that DNA itself is the result of evolutionary processes from simpler chemical precursors[0]. We know that emergent complexity exists, and it doesn't require a supernatural cause.

The problem is, people can't comprehend the complexity that can result in millions or billions of years of iterations, so they assume it must be magic, because that seems simpler and more intuitive. But nature is rarely intuitive at the scale of human understanding.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6360/

Wiktionary's second definition of "militant":

Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. [from 17th c.]

That seems entirely apt to me. It's a metaphorical usage, rather than a literal one, but it has been used that way for centuries.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/militant

"The God Delusion is a 2006 book by British evolutionary biologist and ethologist Richard Dawkins. In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator, God, almost certainly does not exist, and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion

Not sure that matches my live and let live.