Hi, Jeanie!

You seem to be inferring that atheists and evolutionists fall into one category -- or at the very least share parallel beliefs. I don't find this to be true at all. Evolution no more invalidates religion than does gravity. Evolution could very well be the method of creation with which one's god or gods chooses to employ. I don't see any reason why evolution and religion oppose one another. Not for one second. Consequently, I don't see why even the "strictest" of evolutionists can't be, for example, a devout Christian or Shinto. And that should be all the answer one needs as regards their thoughts on the concept of spirits and the soul.