After continued debate on the TDS site I have been forced to conclude that science does aim to establish "truths" about the world. The understanding of fundamental truths about the universe does seem to be the goal as demonstrated by the theory of relativity.
It seems then that I was clinging to the idea that science was only interested in observation, and not in truth, and was thus able to claim that science was somehow neutral. Neutral and different that atheism. I believed that atheism believed that science could provide truth and religion could not therefore atheism was flawed. My view of science was that it was merely interested in observations about the natural world within the context of other observations about the natural world.
I have had to adjust my view. Science does believe that certain truths can be arrived at regarding the universe. The difference between science and atheism then is that science has not yet passed judgment on the existence of God, while atheism has.
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