Thanks much for this Alex. You make some important points. One of them is the objection seen even within these responses to the Abrahamic God or the human constructed religions. Its important to separate out basic beliefs from all the cultural accoutrements, many of which I would not want to try and defend. I expressed that concern in another response in the danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I also agree that positive atheism and the physicalist belief system runs into an insoluble problem. C.S. Lewis identified this but it was best explained in a book length treatment by highly regarded philosopher Alvin Plantinga in "Where the Conflict Really Lies." He shows that physicalism or materialism so crucial to atheists is self-defeating as random processes could not result in rationality. I encourage you to check it out as well as other works by Plantinga.

I'd be eager to hear more from you on my posts on Medium where I try to see what science really teaches vs. what we are told by physicalists it teaches and how what we actually know conforms to or conflicts with biblical theism.