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ELI5: Why is Atheism in the US associated with Science?

First of all a little background. I was born a Moroccan Muslim and grew up to be an atheist, now living in Canada.

Whenever I see American atheist subreddits/forums etc., the content seems to be 95% science instead of religion (or lack of).

In Islam, there's that thing where you're always supposed to be researching science ("*Seek learning from the cradle to the grave*" and such...). Given, you end up with weird interpretations of the religion, but there isn't much opposition to the science (except of course when scientists say stuff like there's no God).

Now, I do understand that in Christian history, church has always been a roadblock to science. However, I do not understand how being an atheist seems to be 95% about science. To me, these are totally different things!

So... ELI5?
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One thing that you see a lot in the US, maybe also in other countries: Some religious people try to change science to fit their views. The big one is that the book of Genesis has a narrative of the creation of the Earth and the life on it over the course of 7 days. Now, there is overwhelming scientific evidence to show that over the span of billions of years, the earth was formed from space matter, and life evolved from there. However, since that doesn't fit into the box that religious people have subscribed themselves to, they'll try to manipulate the evidence to show that their preexisting notions are correct. In that sense, science being anti-religion is kind of a reaction to religion being (in this case) anti-science.

However, strictly speaking, science and religion don't have to conflict, as long as you accept that science deals strictly with facts and physical things, whereas religion primarily deals with philosophy and the metaphysical.