Atheism vs. God's Existence

[robvalue]

Ah well yeah, it depends exactly how you define the words.

I'm comfortable saying a baby is an atheist. It lacks a belief in gods, by virtue of not even knowing what they are. I lack the belief of lots of things that I've never heard of. But then you could say it's ignostic because it doesn't understand the question, for sure.

Or if an atheist is a person who isn't a theist, then a baby is an atheist.

I tried to call it default atheism and cognitive atheism to separate the two, but it never caught on.