There is no such thing as atheism.

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Let me clarify a few things first.  Hmm, butter?  No, but there will be crabs to be had aplenty shortly.

Atheism, from my understanding, is a belief that there is no God or gods, or... anything... but what science has proven.  It is a world view purportedly based upon the results of the sciences.  And while there are groups and individuals who declare themselves to be atheists, that doesn't make the notion of their beliefs true.  If I were to start, oh, let us say a flat earth society... would that make the earth flat?  No, of course not.  I am even agnostic about the notion of the state of being an agnostic, but I'll get to that in a bit.

I will start with the sciences.  The sciences, clumped together and rolled into a design, as a means testing of... anything... is not just rather weak, it is... impossible.  Science, as a term, could be considered to have one of several different meanings.  One could ascribe it to mean the sum of collected, studied, and theoretical data compiled by man.  Another meaning might be the process by which subjects are studied.  Another, among possibly other meanings, might be the men who do the work, in a general way.  And while science does attempt to understand the world, ourselves, life, and all, the truth is it is a never ending process.  If science figures everything out, and is able to apply that, it won't be science anymore.  It would purely be engineering.  It isn't there.  It isn't close.  Science is the study of what exists, but is limited by our own ability, and failings.  Those limits are vast beyond imagining.  None of the definitions of science could even remotely be construed with knowing everything, true knowledge, or simply the truth.  They can't even figure out how to get two main schools of physics to work together!  Beyond that, basing a belief on science, which is based upon mathematics, and knowing that mathematicians still haven't actually proven that 1 + 1 = 2, or gotten beyond the fact that zero is just a theory, is... rather a sketchy proposition.  It all comes down to the little details.  The cracks in those details are wide enough to drive universes through.  And... that happens from time to time.

As it ends, atheism chooses to believe in the non-existence of God because science hasn't proven God, if that is quite debatable, down in the details.  But what they completely omit is the obverse, that science also hasn't disproven God.  That in spite of the majority of the world believing in God or gods.  Trying to use psychology to discount religion would be much like a spiritualist trying to use astrology to prove the sun is actually cold, both are about as scientifically adequate as the other.  both pseudo sciences that... just don't pan out when men try to tinker with the theory to favor their pet perversities. Atheism, as it turns out, is merely a belief in science, one most atheists truly do not grok.  I would happily agree that atheism exists, albeit not as it is tendered... if they will agree that it is simply another faith system.

As to agnostics?  As I said I am torn on that.  Go figure?  Perhaps, for some, who really can't sense or feel or see.  When I look at the world, the universe, even through the scientific lens to within my capacity, I don't just see the fingerprint of God.  I also see the image of man.  I see little algorithms, flows, designs, and things that point to the existence, biology, real psychology, and other aspects of men.  For a long time, as a choosing disbeliever, this bothered me.  Until it clicked.  We are made in God's image, it would make sense.  Didn't like it then, do now, if it is still... a bit heavy.  Not sure if they can't or won't see.

Ah, as for my part?  I saw, I just didn't like it.  I couldn't do what I wanted to do.  It was inconvenient.  So I simply agreed with whoever to a degree, paid lip service perhaps, then did whatever I wanted.  I won't say I went to a mountaintop and attained wisdom and went on to heal myself.  No...  I was pulled, called, dragged in.  Almost tricked in.  I actually challenged the truth... Prove it, I thought.  The answer was... disprove it.  So I started digging, with great zeal.  For me, in the end... I lost.  While I have no more evidence than the next man, my attempts at really getting to the heart of matters showed what... I already knew.  Still didn't like it, still don't, always.  But if something is right the vast majority of the time, to my satisfaction (if not always pleasure), I will yield.  Science, as it turns out, is based on techniques that work only through finding the imperfections in the theory and using these to propose new theories and then having engineers actually make it work, leaving actual science in the dust.  Probably still wouldn't have speed of sound travel if it had been left to the scientists at NASA.  They handed the task to the military and they simply engineered it, theories be damned.  Same with electricity, if you get right down to it.  Scientists knew, at the time, that it running electricity across a wire was far too inefficient to be a workable power solution.  Thanks you, Westinghouse, Edison, et. al.  Bah!