And yet the majority if not all of the people in the world still use a belief system, even the Aeithists.
In fact....scientists and philosophers, especially in the field of epistemology and ethics (the study of knowledge and belief and the study of right and wrong belief and behavior including morality) alike will tell you its part of being human.
Its part of what gives us as human beings the ability to look ahead and structure our behaviors accordingly. Its an excellent survival tool.
Whether that be a religious one, a philisophical one, a scientific one, or a personal one, or a combination there of (personally I think allmost all people have some sort of combination).
Which btw is composed of a mixture of reason and feeling in all cases. The person who says they can 100% divorce themselves from feeling is quite simpley a liar or suffering from some kind of nerological disorder.
And yes, believing that you have no belief system can in fact be in part or whole a belief system.
What is a belief system....Thorne you stated yours (or at least parts of it) ...you want evidence, but you certiantly do take much on faith becuase I am quite certian you dont run around repeating every experiement made by everyone, so in that, you are trusting that who ever it is is backed up by enough of their peers (which is all peer review really is) so that you have allmost blind faith in their postulations.
I am sure when you hear of some new theory...such as multiple universes, global warming or the big bang (which was new once upon a time) not having the means to test it yourself you have had to put your faith in what others have told you about it and come to some kind of a decision as to whether or not to "believe" what they have said.
Whats curious to me is that people are just as hypocritical sounding as the people they wish to denounce for their beliefs when they start touting whats best about theirs and bad about someone elses.
If someone doesnt like a certian belief system and yet says they respect someone elses right to have those beliefs that in and of itself is fine, why then go the extra distance to be derogatory and try to demean it?