Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?

[Kirbmarc]

gnoring the difficulties with this concept, this seems to be something added, that it is a refusal to believe claims of a specific nature, but, only if those refusals are based on science or scientific reasons. I think this is a reasonably accurate summary of what many atheists consider the litmus test, but this is subsuming a lot more than "lack of belief". There's a whole epistemology here.

There is, but its' an epistemology based on scientific reason, not an irrational, emotive choice as John DG was arguing. Atheism does not make irrational claims unless you believe science to be irrational. Atheism is the only position coherent with the epistemology behind science.