Some have argued that everyone is an atheist because we all deny the existence of some gods.

There is a difference between denying some gods and denying all possibility of God.

To deny God may require more cognitive firepower than we possess.

The Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins has argued that everyone is an atheist. “I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.” By this he means that he goes on to deny one additional god, namely that of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph, as described in the Bible.

Dawkins does not exactly categorically deny the existence of God, any more that he denies the existence of “Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we cannot disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.” If there were a god, he asserts, there should be empirical evidence of divine existence, and because we lack any observable, measurable data to support such a hypothesis, atheists are eminently reasonable in denying it.

Is belief in God irrational? As Dawkins indicates, the lack of empirical evidence warrants consideration. What is God like? How much does he weigh, what are his physical dimensions, what color is he, what are his GPS coordinates, and is he hot, cold, or room temperature? From one........

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