A mythical being springing from human fears and insufficiency that infracts all laws of logic with illusory attributes and effects,supposedly and especially localized in a fairy land called paradise and is maintained in discourse and deliberation by the ambivalence of the greater part of humanity as regards the agency of right knowledge, founded and nourished on a bunch of dogmas in scriptures as opposed to and incongruent with the a priori and empirical facts and measures deducted or inducted in science which incidentally is not obligated to disprove a goose egg.
Well, I just came up with that.....:drool:.The Atheist position,fair enough. Pretty tight , I'd say
Ofcourse, the most universal attribute we give god is that of the '"creator",notwithstanding that there are systems of thought in India where God is assumed without entailing the attribute of "creator" and the nullifier of nothingness, who summons everything out of pure void.Yoga Philosophy assumes God without any role in creation but who helps souls in truth realization.
Dualism assumes God as exclusive of conscious and non conscious phenomenon and factors in the universe(space, time, causation etc). All Abrahamic religions are Dualist. It is this idea that is least immune to the above definition I gave.
So, my observation is that the majority of humans would call God the creator, without addressing the position of the atheist/scientist satisfactorily.
Aside from creation, there is the possibility of "manifestation".Many Indian systems adhere to the 'Satkaryavada" ,the "principle of actual modification", whereby the effect is non different from the cause and that nothing was created but only transmuted and manifested from a pre existing causal state.
Would you be an atheist if you posit that God is not so much magic as metallurgy?
Maybe....