FaRmLaNd on 02 June 2010
Athiesm isn't a religion. There is no set of beliefs or morals that athiesm puts forward. All atheism is, is a lack of religion or disbelief in it. It makes no statements other then that the divine doesn't exist. And considering the burden of proof is on the religious, you could hardly call it a faith based viewpoint.
Conversly Science is something that cannot support faith because faith is a belief held without evidence. Science requires empirical evidence that can be observed, measured and tested and retested with consistent results. Religious belief requires only faith, cannot be tested and presides in a realm outside of the natural universe.
Saying Science is a religion is a bit of a stretch.
My morals don't come from my disbelief in God or my support of Scientific theory. I have morals because of the way I was raised and because of the society I live in. I don't need God to tell me that killing a person is wrong.
