What Does Being An Atheist Actually Entail? (Theism in mind)

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If you want to stack up religion against science, consider this:

Science makes accurate, useful predictions using the models it has constructed to be the best fit to reality as currently possible. If the predictions don't work, the model is revised. When they do work, you have a powerful tool for making progress. Most importantly: these predictions are very specific, and can be shown to be wrong.

What accurate, useful, specific predictions has religion ever made? If the human brain somehow stopped benefiting from the placebo effect, and confirmation bias was deleted, the house of cards would come down pretty quickly.