From what I’ve seen, most atheists seem to hold their belief in response to a desire that is primary, and secondarily they try to justify it rationally.
But if one claims they thought about it carefully and thoroughly before choosing atheism, he will have to hold the logically incoherent belief that nothing created everything.
‘he will have to hold the logically incoherent belief that nothing created everything.’
utter nonsense; an atheist can be perfectly comfortable stating that ‘naturally occurring forces’ created the universe, without having positive proof of precisely which forces those might be...just as the theists have no issue with stating a divine origin, while having no idea of the particulars involved...(including what would then have created the creator)