sield,
I think I understand what you are getting at. I personally now use science to decipher what is true and what is
baloney. Why shouldn't we? It has proven itself to be true by building all the technology around us. And it has taken us to the moon and built aeroplanes. And it has done so THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE. Unlike religion which makes false promises of reward in the afterlife.
So I use science and reason as my compass. Even on matters of morality. And by the way sield, remember that Atheists are known to think for themselves, so they don't like being labelled. (It's like trying to herd cats.) I guess that's why there are so many labels which all deny the existence of God. Skeptic/Pantheist/Freethinker/Atheist/Agnostic etc etc. But they all agree that science is the tool that should be used to decide what is true.
If science doesn't work, improve your science and try again.
ninurta: why agnostic and not atheist?
Some people are a bit pedantic and don't like the word atheist because it sounds like you are
absolutely sure that there is not God, which no one can be of course as Dawkins has said. But in practice they are atheists. I call myself an ateapotist, but to be pedantic, I should say teapot-agnostic.