No, you keep missing it. The default position on anything is scepticism, of which atheism is a specialised subset dealing with one subject. Scepticism is the position of responding, "ok - convince me" to claims. It's the reason a law court is geared to the prosecution having to provide the evidence for the charges, not the defense to disprove them; with the jury or magistrates playing the rôle of sceptic waiting to be convinced.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'