Does Atheism = No beliefs?

And let us not forget antagonistically counterproductive.Prophetically, before Dawkins succeeded to the chair for the public understanding of science at Oxford he once said that he would probably not be the best public face for rationality and science.--Percy

Math is not science, but physics and all the rest of science, just like biology, "cannot examine anything beyond the scope of human sensory perception." Science studies the natural world that is available to the human senses. Anything we cannot sense in some way, even very indirectly, is not amenable to scientific study If the claims are ID are not apparent to "human sensory perception" then they cannot be studied by any field of science. It would mean that all fields of science are incapable of examining ID's claims.It is ID's inability to generate any testable claims that make it non-science. If ID isn't part of the natural world, then science cannot study it. Scientists, be they atheist or agnostic or Christian or Hindu or Buddhist or whatever, study the natural world. Atheism doesn't enter into it.--Percy

I read the recent exchange between you and Den several times and I still remain confused about what he's trying to say, but I do think he's trying to say something different than what you think. He considers science's focus on the natural detrimental, and so because every opinion in biology is based upon only that which can in some way be observed it therefore cannot have the full picture. Or something like that, as Moose would say.--Percy

Yeah, precisely. Well put.--Percy