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A "faith" in science is different than a "faith" in God.
There is a difference between having confidence that the sun will rise tomorrow versus having confidence that I will have a happy afterlife if I subscribe to specific moral guidelines for being "good."
There is a difference between trusting the theory evolution as the most probable means of life being what it is today versus trusting a document written before the scientific age for the main source of ecologic history.
That said, atheism can be called a religion in that it can mean a faith in science. But this is based on the thought: "How can we really know anything?"
I don't know how microwaves, cell phones, or computers work. They're like magic to me....but I have faith in them.
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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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