EDIT: I read your sentence as "regardless of the fact that I am neither a theist or an atheist". So my comment here is a reply to that sentence, which is probab

EDIT: I read your sentence as "regardless of the fact that I am neither a theist or an atheist". So my comment here is a reply to that sentence, which is probably not what you implied. Sorry to disappoint you, but you are probably an atheist. An atheist does not believe that god does not exist: an atheist does not believe, period. An atheist recognizes that reason can not answer that question. That the question "does this invisible, untouchable thing exist?" has no meaning whatsoever. The only difference between an atheist and an agnostic, is that the latter is utterly concerned with the impossibility to prove the existence/non existence of god. An atheist accepts that fact as self-evident, and goes on with his life. You are right that atheism does not stem from science (atheism predates the scientific method by some millennium). But the scientific method reinforces the atheist point of view.