CoffeeFiend

I think atheism entails belief, but not religious belief by the usual definition of the word. It's simply the belief that there is/are no God(s), everything else can vary from person to person. Heck, there are Buddhists who are atheists and I once even encountered an atheist who believed in ghosts. So... as long as not believing in unfalsifiable assertions does not count as religious belief, atheism is not a religion.

Kalkin

I think it's the far-too-common creationist strawman that people believe in evolution only because materialism requires it - that the theory is justified only by the philosophy.

Charles Darwin

Originally posted by Charles Darwin
What is the strawman that you think I am advancing?

However, ... I didn't say that.

Stephen T-B

My Collins Concise English Dictionary defines Atheism as a belief that there is no God.
I think it is incorrect.
Non-belief cannot be belief, any more than a person can be in two different places simultaneously.

An atheist might be tempted to say: �I believe there is np God,� but that statement is synonymous with the statements: �I believe fairies / Santa Clause do not exists. I believe that the moon is not made of cheese (except where samples were taken by the Apollo moon landings) /that we do not grow two heads when it�s so dark we can�t see� or any other nonsense. In these contexts, �I believe� means: �In the absence of persuasive evidence that these things are real or true, I conclude that they aren�t.�
This does not entail a belief system. It entails a judgment. A judgment of this sort should never be confused with a religious belief which has an internal origin and has absolutely nothing to do with �evidence� of the sort we might seek when deciding that a cake is properly baked, or that the clock on the office wall is two minutes slow, or that the nation�s leader is mentally de-arranged.
Non-belief, as has been pointed out three billion times, is absence of belief. Like when you�ve sucked all the air out of a chamber, the chamber cannot be said to contain air. When belief doesn�t exist, there is no belief.
(It seems quite straightforward to me.)