Clinical Academic Ken Miles considers whether greater scientific knowledge could lead to a rejection of scientific atheism

The “New Atheism” of the mid 2000s was known for criticisms of religion that relied much more forcefully on science than philosophy. This reliance on science persists among atheists today. As recently as 2021, a study of secular worldviews found that atheists strongly endorse an attitude which regards the natural sciences and the scientific method as the best or only way to make valid statements about the world and reality. 

And yet, there are times when atheists fail to apply scientific principles to their own criticisms of religion. To put matters simply, some atheists demonstrate a surprisingly poor grasp of scientific methodology. This statement may seem provocative, but it is, in fact, a laying out… (Register to read the rest of the article)