Can I politely ask why you believe in something supernatural for which you admit there is no evidence for?

Call yourself whatever you want. What you describe is very much like a deist and many of our Founding Fathers were deists. This type of "god" does not interact with humanity at all in any way.

sounds to me like you'd be interested in the simulation theory.

That would make you an Agnostic.

But @Cyklone explains it very well. If you invoke a creator (even if it's just a force) it does not solve your problem of how the universe came to be, because then you have to ask "who created the force", and that would carry on infinitely so.

In our lifetimes, we see the concept of life and death, so we assume the universe must have had a birth. In fact, the wider universe may have always been around forever. There was a big bang, but the current big bang could have been one of trillions of others, before, and alongside our current universe.

In Stephen Hawking's final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, he answers how a universe can just come into existence. When you get into the quantum scale, things can literally just pop in and out of existence. As the universe was, at one stage, at a quantum small size, it could literally have spontaneously cone into existence.

A highly recommend book if you get a chance to read.

With all due resoect I think you are stuck. You don't follow the bible. Well many religions don't follow the bible, as a matter of fact, only Christians "follow the bible" and Jews and Moslims follow parts of it.

You state your interest in a "concept of a higher force who created us" ... To me your wording indicates that you are a deist of sorts. Especially the term "created us". Creation presupposes a mind and a will and "us", I would represents humans.
I would not qualitfy you as an atheist.

I would call you an Atheist. Just being interested in God doesn't make you a deist to me. You have to have some sort of belief and conviction that a God exists. Hoping for it doesn't count either. They are just labels but it is best to look at your belief not what you would like to believe.

You're an atheist, by how you've described yourself. You seem to currently believe there is nothing, although you're open to the possibility. It seems fair to say, then, that this is the case until you have some reason to believe otherwise. Being curious or wondering about the possibility of a higher power doesn't quite make you a deist until you actually believe there is something god-like there.

No you're not an Atheist....you delight in pissing on alleged bible gawds and you conform to Thomas Paine Deism......a watchmaker sort of alleged gawd that does not tinker and interfere with alleged created systems anywhere....zero miracles .....you are most welcome here in agosticCYBERland.....telling the truth about bibles and xians et al is a great leap forward.... Deism was scientific until 150 years ago when the luminiferous ether was the last refuge of the alleged supernatural agencies.....no longer do any competent scientists pretend there are any alleged gawds observed in any realm to be measured...."intelligent design" advocates betray their science credentials to worm religion back into science....cosmology does NOT presume a "beginning" but does predict a massive explosion via observed background radiation from our points of observation in our galaxy of all galaxies expanding away from us.....to pretend a being larger than a 16 billion light year wide universe is a first cause is the definition of absurdity

Do you believe that this god exists? Then you are a deist. If you don't believe in any gods then you are an atheist.

How about Agnostic sounds closer

I believe in a creator. I do not think IT cares about anyone thing. Think of your lawn if it were say 15 acres, (well the universe is kinda large...no?), so every day 25,000,000 blades die, but then 35,000,000 fill in the spaces. Do you care? no I doubt you would. Some of the lawns would be perfect and green, other crab grass, plus other weeds. But in a vast sea of grass, you just see green, think of Stalin, Hitler, Trump, Bush all as weeds in that cosmos. The creator does not see them, but rather the sum total, the big picture.

When creator gets bored, creator sends in a chunk of left over planet and wipes out the critters. Kinda like the meteor that killed all the dino's.

So pray never works, and, unless the creator is a kind one (using our values), there will be no reward at death, no reincarnation, we simply stop existing. God doesn't even tell you " I created you when I was bored and just love to watch you fuck and eat and invent and bash each others brains out, you do that very well BTW, but it is time for you to be recycled, so into a star you go" and that is it.

You are golden, you are stardust, you are billion year old carbon, and you ain't never get'n back to the garden!

But as any agnostic, any seeker, we simply go on, cus the alternative is nothing.

Deist is the one that believes in the existence of a god, this god can be personal or not.
A higher power that has a persona IS a god, you are just no calling it a god, but the concept is the same.
It don't need to be YHWH (the name of the abrahamic god) to be caled god.

You can be also religious but not deist, if you believe in spirits or a non personalized "universe" that has some supernatural law that governs the spiritual world. Budhism is a non teistic religion for example. Where in thesis any hman gan ascend to the higher levels.

Atheist is more than not following a personalized god, it includes the non teistic religions.

A deist.

The online dictionary.com shows 2 definitions for deism: 1- belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation; and 2- belief in a God who created the world but has since remained indifferent to it.

What you descibe sound a bit like the socond definition. How firm is your belief? I have read that agnostics are sometimes classified as atheist agnostics and theist agnostics. Would one of these apply to your belief any better than deism?

As far I am concerned, how you classify yourself is far less important than how you behave toward yourself and others. Take as much time as you want/need to work out what you believe and what you classify yourself as.

Why you worry about what strangers that do not know you think of you??? Really?

deist

Richard Dawkins reminds us that in science nothing is 100% certain. Even the physical laws like gravity only apply some of the time -- as in a black hole, or inside an atom. So we shouldn't say we're atheists and leave the door of possibility open a little bit. I consider myself a "Strong Atheist" because the chances of these stupid religions being factual are practically nil.

If you believe there is some higher force/creator god but it doesn't involve itself in human affairs--and might not even know we exist--I would call you a deist. If you don't necessarily believe there is such a force, but think there just might be one--I would call you an agnostic.

Not believing in the Bible, or the god described in it, does not make you an atheist. Atheists don't believe in ANY gods, of any kind, not even the deists god.

If you see no reason to believe that any gods exist, but you recognize that it cannot be proven that one does not exist (it simply cannot be known)--I would call you an agnostic atheist (which is what I am). Although, I usually just identify as atheist.

There is belief and there is hope and there is rationale.
Belief is subjective and I doubt that anyone believes exactly the same thing. It is belief not fact.
Hope is for what might come next. This does not need fact.
Rationale says that something must have created the universe. But rationale only works if this is not complete illusion.

Been there, kid. It's rough. I said Deist and then got very tired of explaining what a Deist thought. Looking for something close, but more understood, I chose Taoism. Now I'm into Zen. By blood I'm Jewish so probably disposed to this kind of thing.

An interesting question: How should I label myself? An atheist has no belief in any god. Therefore, belief in a god that exists but doesn't interfere with human existence is not an atheist position. If you want to embrace deism then you are not an atheist.

I would classify you as an agnostic. You believe in something powerful that could crate the universe, you just don't know what it is.

You are an atheist when it comes to the Abrahamic God.

When it comes to the other half of your question, I would call you an assumptionist: you assume that the universe was created.

To answer your question: I would consider you to be an atheist and an assumptionist.

Yeah that's how I think.
Look up 'neo-deist' and you'll find that sentiment.
So I'm an agnostic neo-deist. Today, anyway.
I just have ideas here, there, and everywhere, depending on which way the wind is blowing, secure in the knowledge I don't have to believe IN or not believe IN anything.
For instance, I don't think there such a thing as "determinalism," because even 'god' couldn't know the future. What's my "evidence?"
I don't have any!
See?
It's easy!
Likewise, I don't think the physical world was ever "created" because it's always been here. The Big Bang was just the beginning of another of an infinite number of cycles.
No proof, just my feeling.
Agnostics don't need evidence or proof when it comes to the Great Mysteries because if there was any to begin with they wouldn't be mysteries.
Atheists and theists err by constantly bickering over this inconvenient fact.
Theists: no proof needed, faith is enough.
Atheists: faith insufficient, proof essential!
Yada yada yada.

If the scientists on the forefront of cosmology and astrophysics are correct about the Big Bang, at that point the universe went from being an incredibly hot, dense mass with few of the principles of physics that we know today, including time, the known forces, etc. We don't know what might have triggered inflation, though, assuming the Big Bang theory is correct, so that's still a mystery. But the underlying question(s) I take away from your post is whether there's reason to think that the cause was metaphysical in some sense, that there was a consciousness driving the origin of our universe, etc. Over the millennia, humans have often said that there must be a God or gods to explain things we could not at that time comprehend. Who or what brings the sun back each day? Must be a sun god! Why did my child die suddenly? I must have angered the gods! What explains the motion of the planets when our mathematic models cannot? The hand of God, of course! What was there "before" the universe as we know it was formed? God! It's the god of the gaps, to explain what lies beyond our current understanding of how things work. I think the answer is "I don't know" until we do indeed know more, but theists often jump on that as justification for their beliefs, claiming, "Well, you can't prove it isn't God." Depending on how God is defined, that's true, but I also cannot prove it's not of alien origin beyond our understanding, or The Matrix, or a self-contained loop where an event can contain its own cause, and so on. I'm not justified in believing any of those things. The fact that we have so often discovered answers to questions that previously perplexed us suggests something, though: that the outstanding questions that remain are likely not magic any more than the answers of the past were. In this way I take the negative-atheist position, which dovetails with agnosticism, but instead of merely saying "I don't know, and it can't be known," I reject the claims of theist and deism as having no substance, no reason or evidence pointing in their direction. I never feel beholden to the argument that I can't prove it's not true, because I'm not the one asserting the claim. I am under no obligation to accept fanciful stories when no good evidence and reasoning is presented to support them. Philosophy, I think it's good to explore such thought experiments, but once we get to accepting metaphysical claims there's an evidential bar that needs to be cleared. In your case, are you accepting of the deistic claims, or do you merely entertain them? I think your answer to that will tell you whether you're an atheist or a deist.