Not sure why @fishos@lemmy.world is only replying in DMs but here’s the response I couldn’t send there:

The reason people are assuming you’re a theist is because (1) you’re spouting the same things apologists do. The quote you opened with is a (debatably bigoted) caricature of atheists designed to make them seem unreasonable.

Then there’s the “how, not why” which is a deliberately vaguely worded claim which apologists use to smuggle in an implication of some sort of cosmic purpose, as if “why” means “what’s the purpose behind it?” Science answers both the how and why when “why” only means “why.” (Why does it rain? Water cycle. How does it rain? Water cycle.)

(2) You’re also perpetuating the falsehood (I’d say “lying” but maybe you’re misinformed) that atheists are all gnostic like Christians tend to do to make atheism seem more loaded than it is. Gnostic atheists and agnostic atheists are both “atheists.” Saying all atheists are gnostic atheists is like someone saying all Christians are Catholics. I agree that gnostic atheism is unfounded, but I didn’t see a single person there make a gnostic claim, yet that’s the strawman you’re wrestling with.

And (3) you actually didn’t say you were an agnostic atheist, let alone “clearly.”