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This has been an interesting discussion so far.
Here's what I find interesting about this issue:
1) Disproving the existence of God, or relinquishing the need to prove or disprove such existence, does not automatically assume that there is no sense of morality. Is the "New Atheism" simply an idea under secular humanism?
2) Science is not exclusive to atheism, and faith is not exclusive to theism. Consider scientific research and trials, which rely on hunches and hopes. Also consider Buddhism, which works quite well with scientific thinking because it is preoccupied with empirical truth.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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