Also just in general, I disagree that skepticism is not progress. If I said, "I don't believe in God because there's nothing in the universe with those properties..." I don't think it's fair to say, "Cool, but like, I'm still praying to something right, and that needs to be explained" because I don't think that speaks fully to what I just denied.

In the case of religion, many people have a very strong intuition that God exists. So, is the atheist position not progress because we have not explained this intuition?