Is atheism a belief?

[bennyboy]

So yea, none of these ideas have any more merit than really any other version of god that has been proposed. At best, they're a little more palatable for the modern deist than the god of the Bible or the Quran. At best.

The problem with these ideas is that they are plausible enough philosophically, but there's really no way to gain the knowledge required to sensibly form an actual belief around them. One might believe on a hunch, but there's nothing more to go on.