Is atheism a scientific perspective?

[Pat Mustard]

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And I don't think that you can just dismiss the arguments that ID proponents make by asserting that it is a conspiracy theory set up by the religious to corrupt science.

Well we can presume that ID is exactly that because it is what the fundy creatards who created ID stated in their foundational document. The "Wedge strategy" memo, which has long been available and long been acknowledged by the discovery "institute" as being theirs and factually correct, explicitly states that the whole idea is to get creatardism taught in schools through rebranding as ID (and not explicitly naming yhwh), and pretending that there is a controversy in evolutionary biology, i.e. the science isn't settled and that "many scientists" are being blackmailed into not speaking out against "Darwinism".

If that is not religion trying to corrupt science then I don't even.