Is atheism a scientific perspective?

[Astreja]

Random mutation is proclaimed to be the engine that drives new genetic information.

It's "an" engine, not "the" engine.  Mutations are also the result of fairly predictable biochemical factors such as stochastic switching, whereby the chemical balance in the environment can mask or uncover alleles, thereby affecting which traits are "on" and which ones are "off" at the time of replication.

If you want to an assert that an intelligent agent is somehow directing the process. it's your responsibility to provide evidence for that agent, rather than working backwards and just inferring that it simply has to be there.  (I doubt very much, however, that the clueless git described in the Bible would be capable of such work.)