Is atheism a scientific perspective?

[Astreja]

He's going to tell you he's a biology student, but what he won't tell you is that it's a Christian college.  Several of our well-educated members who have backgrounds in evolutionary biology spent WEEKS with this guy, trying to show him the flaws in both his reasoning, AND his scientific understanding, but he just comes back every few months and hits the reset button on everyone.  He is a waste of everybody's time and mental effort, as far as I'm concerned.  

Yeah, that's kinda the feeling I got about him. That's why I stopped taking him seriously at all.

It's just one long, drawn-out argument from incredulity.

I have no respect left for creationists.  None at all.  I grok that there's something about evolution that really, really pisses the lot of them off, but I know just enough about biology to suspect that they aren't giving the evidence serious consideration.

Of course, if they did take a serious and unbiased look at evolution, two things would likely happen:

• They would see in short order that evolution is a robust theory supported by physical evidence, and that young-earth creationism in particular is a fucking crock of shit.
  
• They might start applying the same scientific rigor to their beliefs, and see their faith (and any hope of eternal bliss in Happy Fun Jesusland) go spiraling down the loo.