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It is a form of atheism and one which is stated often by atheists. Here's the deal with that. Gods are by definition immeasurable systems. There's no way to measure a god and thus there is no way to fully quantitatively or qualitatively demonstrate the existence of a god. In the absence of data, the ability to even take data, one cannot conclusively say anything about the system. Gods are, in fact, a pure superposition of states composed of existing or not existing. We cannot collapse the wavefunction as we have no way to measure the system. So you cannot say anything about gods with 100% certainty. Can gods exist? Sure, why not? Since there is no conclusive evidence (and thanks to the way we've defined gods, can never be conclusive evidence...not in this existence) one must then operate off of probabilities. Well sure a god can exist, but how likely is it for a god to exist? Agnostics may put that more at a 50/50 shot. An atheist will say something more like "while gods can exist, given the observations of this current world it seems to me to be rather improbable and is much more likely that gods do not exist." It's not an absolute statement, but rather one based on probabilities of the superposition of states. Given that the is well more probable that gods do not exist than do exist, I do not believe in a god till there is concrete evidence of a god demonstrated to exist. But that evidence cannot be had due to the definition of gods as immeasurable states. I do not believe in a god.
All well and good.
Again, I'll say, if I'm so wrong in my understanding please...enlighten me...find things outside of this thread of people on this forum that are athiests making similar statements in anything other than a flippant insulting way that sure, a god is possible, they just don't personally think there is one. Honestly, I'd be happy to be wrong on this, I just rarely can remember reading this in the few religion threads I read.