Science is inherently atheistic

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I think you may be conflating atheistic with secular.   Many of the greatest scientists were deeply religious but their achievements meant being able to set aside magical thinking to investigate the actual evidence.  I'd be surprised if many weren't inspired by their god beliefs and concluded that what they found was evidence of their god's subtlety and wisdom.

If you read any of the references I left, you'd probably find out that the scientific revolution/age of enlightenment was both secular and atheistic in nature.

• I think the issue here, is that most people feel atheism stops at rejecting or lacking belief in God. A somewhat thorough read-through of Wikipedia/atheism will underline how incomplete that picture of atheism is.
  

Side-note: Being inspired to do science, doesn't generate any science. As you'll probably find out on Wikipedia/atheism, modern science came about by secular or atheistic means.

Side-note: It is also not surprising that most humans were theists, including scientists back then, especially because mankind did not always have modern science (so religion or archaic science/protoscience preceded it) or some of the modern tools which can be used to properly disregard religion. Also note persecution of the non-religious, as you'll see on Wikipedia/religious persecution.

I do not consider Wikipedia articles to be authoritative sources so repeatedly quoting them does not change anything. Atheism is the lack of belief in a god but good science can be done by both atheists and theists so long as they are examining demonstrable evidence and following it where it leads. That is a secular process that has no relationship to the beliefs, preferences, or biases of the scientist. If Wikipedia authors want too term that "atheistic" then I think they are misusing that term.