Evolutionary biology adopting religious traits

[tantric]

To me, everyone has a religion. It's the combination of your beliefs on cosmology, eschatology, teleology, theology, morality and other fields. I don't see belief in the God of Abraham and belief in No God as fundamentally different. However, after being dragged down by semantic one too many times, I've yield and now use the word 'dharma' instead of 'religion' to describe this.

I completely disagree.

There are plenty of us who aren't afraid to question our own premises.

I also think equivocating atheism with the Abrahamic religions belies your real point here. If you cannot see the fundamental differences inherent in the two worldviews, I don't know what to tell you, except to say that there's a hell of a lot of muddled conceptualizing you've got going on, by all appearances.

Are you saying that you don't have a worldview? You have no opinion about the structure of the cosmos, the meaning of life, what happens after death, the existence of God(s) and/or the basis of morality? Questioning has nothing to do with it.

Everyone has beliefs about these things. You do, too. Everyone also thinks that their beliefs are correct and has a standard to prove this. You might use the scientific method, Bob might use divine revelation. Don't get me wrong, I'm on the side of science, but I'm capable of seeing the world from other POV's.

But this is the issue - I just insinuated that an atheists has something in common with a Christian. Atheists define religions as 'wrong' ergo atheism can't ever be considered in any way a part of a religion. Please just skip this part - it doesn't go anywhere.

This in part illustrates my point. Atheism has become more than nonbelief, it's become an identity.