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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Well, its basically semantics, but we can agree what I was discussing could not be labelled as atheism, as Claeren suggested.
There is quite the divide though between agnosticism and atheism, filled in with many subsects from the "there is most definitely a God, but none of the religions are close enough," to "there is almost certainly no God."
I would contend that some Atheists have definitely said "there is no God", though certainly not posterchildren or academics like Dawkins. Since, even in Science, something like gravity is only a theory, and not a certainty, its not rational to deal in absolutes. But hey, who said faith or anti-faith as it were, was rational?
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People might use the word definitely, but lets remember to those who don't believe in God we say with great certainty that fairies and elves don't exist.
Its just to be a reasonable skeptic you have to say there is no absolute certainty that those things cannot exist. That still doesn't weaken an Atheist stand point or give any strength to God existing.
Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence.