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« on: August 06, 2015, 12:05:00 AM »

Short answer: no. Since atheism is a complete rejection of anything supernatural.
Not all atheists are the "I only believe in what science has proven" types.

You could not believe in a God, but believe an individual's identity can survive death in a phenomenon not yet proven by science.

I would contend that such a person is fooling themselves if they say they are atheist. They are rejecting a traditional notion of God, yet constructing a worldview that contains the core elements of a religion inhabited by divine beings.  Divine does not have to be omnipotent or omnipresent. So that person might be accepting divine beings that are just the post-mortal identities of people. That seems theist to me, just not monotheist.
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