I cannot speak for other atheists, but as far as I’m concerned I agree with you. Since we have a hard time defining even a human being, I accept that “God” cannot be clearly defined in any model, but I accept that there are narrations that points to some being of divine nature, and I accept that as a valid ‘reference’ to God(s). To those, I give a very low probability, with very little Knightian uncertainty (meaning that I also give very little probability to future evidence that would raise this probability, and high probability to evidence that will lower this value). For that account of the divine, I consider myself a full fledged atheist. There are other narrations though, and I’ve heard of definitions that basically reduce to “the law of physics”, to which I give obviously very high probability with very high meta-certainty. There might be definitions or narrations that are in the middle, though. On that account, I cannot say precisely what my probabilities are, and thus would be appropriate to say that I lack a belief in this kind of god, more than a definite belief in the non-existence.
I cannot speak for other atheists, but as far as I’m concerned I agree with you.
Since we have a hard time defining even a human being, I accept that “God” cannot be clearly defined in any model, but I accept that there are narrations that points to some being of divine nature, and I accept that as a valid ‘reference’ to God(s). To those, I give a very low probability, with very little Knightian uncertainty (meaning that I also give very little probability to future evidence that would raise this probability, and high probability to evidence that will lower this value). For that account of the divine, I consider myself a full fledged atheist.
There are other narrations though, and I’ve heard of definitions that basically reduce to “the law of physics”, to which I give obviously very high probability with very high meta-certainty.
There might be definitions or narrations that are in the middle, though. On that account, I cannot say precisely what my probabilities are, and thus would be appropriate to say that I lack a belief in this kind of god, more than a definite belief in the non-existence.