[CarolinaGuitarman]

" Stating that "God is beyond the purview of science" is definitively atheistic."

Only when you rewrite *atheism* to mean the belief that science doesn't have an opinion on the existence of God. In the real world, this is not the definition of atheism.

" It specifically names "God" as the object of exclusion. How can science exclude something it claims to be "silent" about?"

It doesn't single out God; it excludes ALL untestable, unobservable subjects.

[Fester Chugabrew]

It doesn't single out God . . .

Read these words again: "God is not within the purview of science." Do you see the word "God" in there? In case you didn't notice, God is singled out in this statement. He is explcitly EXCLUDED from the consideration of science by all who adhere to this statement in principle.