Atheists are as misguided as religious people.
That's a gargantuan, absurd assertion that is nonsensical and indefensible. Atheism is the simple lack of one single belief--of theism. This is like, say, the simple lack of the one single belief in 90 foot tall flying arctic giraffes.
The only thing that makes sense is some sort of reluctant agnosticism.
That is false, and has gone wrong in two ways at once. First, agnosticism is and can often be a part of
both atheism and theism. Agnosticism is about the inability to apply
knowledge to a question or conundrum. An agnostic atheist (my position, not that it matters) says there are no facts, evidence or logical support for the general, standard god concept, thus the default position in which atheists finds themselves is a lack of theism. An agnostic theist recognizes they have the belief in god, but it does not come from knowledge from the world, but internal feeling. Most all theists are not of this variety, and believe they have knowledge from evidence, and this is undemonstrated and terminally a personal notion. I don't care to digress on that now.
Second, a phony position supposedly caught between belief and absence of belief does not "make sense," it is actually nonsense. Peole don't have such a "caught midway" belief, either. There are three mental stances, basically, to a proposition about something that may exist in the universe: I know it exists (*or not) based on facts, evidence and or logic (knowledge sometimes framed as Justified True Belief); I know it might exist, based on those three things (framed as valid speculation); and I lack any support for believing it exists, thus lacking any belief until something improves to move up to one of the previous two stances.
All of the above are
provisional, and subject to change, but the lever for moving that change is
still facts, evidence and or logic.
*There
can be said to be a fourth stance, that research in science works with extensively, which is to provisionally rule something out, however it really falls under the first position about a proposition but simply in the negative or a "rule out" about the existence of something.
The universe is too big and old to say there's not one, the very same reasons that there is for thinking that it's irrelevant if there is.
The size and age of the universe have no connection to the proposition a god exists, or one does not. In fact people who put forward god propositions often make them intentionally ephemeral and untestable such that age or size could not be used for or against.
Now, I am willing to speculate that there are extraterrestrial intelligences with many* attributes sectarian religions of Earth give to god or gods. However, without facts and evidence, my default position is the same as atheism: I don't have belief
in them. I believe speculation
about the notion. I am a-ETI-ism, if I can make that awkward construction, just to make the point. I am an agnostic a-ETI-ist as yet without access to any knowledge about them.
~*Not all: some attributes I take to be impossible, a rule-out, but won't digress in those weeds unless someone asks.
