[Article.Atheism] Science is inherently atheistic [in 3 bullet points]

[Note: Atheism broadly means lack of belief in deities, according to Wikipedia/atheism. Crucially, Science can reject unfalsifiable concepts like Gods , without making any positive claims of the inexistence of Gods.]

1. Atheism does not merely concern rejecting deities, as one may see on Wikipedia/atheism, or in point 2 below.
2. Modern Science is an atheistic endeavour. Since we didn’t always have modern science, it is probably no surprise that Modern Science emerged from “archaic science/religion/protoscience” in the scientific revolution, as religion was literally dropped from science in the scientific revolution or age of enlightenment. See “Wikipedia/protoscience”, or “Wikipedia/Scientific revolution”. A quick example: See when “astrology/religion/archaic science” was dropped from “modern science/astronomy”, on Wikipedia/astrology and astronomy. [Note that Wikipedia/astrology states that astrology may be seen as a “Greek system of planetary Gods”, see also Wikipedia/planets in astrology, which concerns deities. It becomes quite clear here that Modern science having dropped astrology, disregards deities, where Modern Science need not make any positive claims about the in-existence of deities, although Modern Science clearly rejects belief in deities , i.e. Modern Science is inherently atheistic.]
3. This does not mean I am saying religious scientists can’t exist. However, atheistic scientists are scientists that tend to objectively analyse the truth value of religion; they precisely align with the scientific endeavour of disregarding religious endeavour. This contrasts non-atheistic scientists on this matter, who disregard or “turn off” scientific endeavour while analyzing religion.

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Another historical view:

Consider the sequence below:

Wikipedia/Atheism:

• “The first individuals to identify themselves using the word atheist lived in the 18th century during the Age of Enlightenment.”

Wikipedia/Age of Enlightenment:

• “The Enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism, along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy.”
• Broadly speaking, Enlightenment science greatly valued empiricism and rational thought and was embedded with the Enlightenment ideal of advancement and progress. The study of science, under the heading of natural philosophy, was divided into physics and a conglomerate grouping of chemistry and natural history, which included anatomy, biology, geology, mineralogy and zoology.”

Wikipedia/Natural philosophy:

• “Philosophical, and specifically non-religious thought about the natural world, goes back to ancient Greece.”
• “Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, attempted to explain natural phenomena without recourse to creation myths involving the Greek gods.”

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I am an atheist, casual body builder, and software engineer.