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I guess that it all depends on your definition of "God". If you accept the definition of God that Einstein, and Spinoza, put out there ... that is the sum total of the laws of the universe, then absolutely, there is a God. Some people, when asked to define God, say "you know - a force that's everywhere in the Universe", -- and gravity is everywhere in the universe, so it would be madness to deny gravity.
But I can't be an atheist - to me, an atheist is someone that has overwhelming evidence that God doesn't exist, and I can't say that I've seen that evidence. God as a concept can always be relegated to those areas that we haven't the means to explore yet, so I keep that option open.
I remember reading about Martin Gardner, the mathemetician, who said that he believed in God, as a vague, but comforting concept, even though he stated that atheists have the better arguments against a God. He called it "Fideistic Theism", and I can see that argument. So I'm "that", or an agnostic, depending on your definition.
As an interview on Salon.com said just a few days ago, there have been thousands of Gods - from Mithra to Gilgamesh, to Zeuss, etc., and yet most people are "agnostic", or even atheistic, as to those 9,999 Gods, but believe in the one God of "their" religion.
So, you could say that most people agree to be atheists as to 9,999 Gods, but there is disagreement as to just one of those Gods.
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