Nonbelief in, or the positive denial of, the existence of a God or gods. A related concept is agnosticism . Dogmatic atheism asserts that there is no God. Skeptical atheism maintains that the finite human mind is so constituted as to be incapable of discovering that there is or is not a God.
Critical atheism holds that the evidence for theism is inadequate.
This is akin to philosophical atheism, which fails to find evidence of a God manifest in the universe. Speculative atheism comprises the beliefs of those who find it impossible to demonstrate the existence of God. Buddhism has been called an atheistic religion since it does not postulate any supreme being. The Jains are similarly atheistic, and so are those who adopt the Sankhya system of philosophy in Hinduism. The term was coined 1869 by T H Huxley.