Is the atheist belief structure based on probabilities or proofs?
I don’t think there is a way to describe an “atheist belief structure” when atheism is basically the absence of belief. What may involve probabilities or proofs is the process of letting go of a theist belief structure, if a person was previously a god-believer and later became an atheist. In this case a person may decide that religious “proofs” are not convincing enough to sustain their belief in a god. The questioner may assume that all atheists are coming from this angle, however many atheists were not raised in a church and never had a belief structure to begin with, and therefore no need to create some “counter-belief” structure. Normally, though, probabilities and proofs come into play when atheists and god-believers interact with each other and try to convince each other of their position. A theist doesn’t need probabilities and proofs because they have faith – an atheist doesn’t need them because they have none. Often we will try to out-reason each other with them but in our da
