Reply #74: No

[uberllama42]

Not believing in God is merely the rejection of a positive claim made by another person. Believing there is no God is equivalent to making a claim about the universe. Anyone making a claim has to meet a burden of proof.

If all I say is that I don't see evidence for another person's claim, then it's not incumbent on me to present evidence, since I haven't advanced a claim of my own. If I was to say that I know there is not a God, I would have a burden of proof to meet. That's not a claim that can really be supported empirically, and I also would not attempt to argue that, logically, there absolutely cannot be a God or gods. But I do not think that any of the arguments presented for the existence of God are persuasive.