Why materialists are predominantly materialists

[Pat Mustard]

I feel like I'm at a bit of an impasse now... so much so that I don't know whether I should downgrade myself from an atheist to an agnostic.

You can be both you know.

And frankly under different assumptions you can be both gnostic and agnostic about your atheism. For example when people talk to me about yhwh (or any other human created god for that matter), I'm a gnostic atheist. But when people talk to me about a generic god, or some sort of pantheist "oversoul" I'm an agnostic atheist.