[7ontheline]

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Being an atheist means you don't believe in the existence of God. If you can't prove God doesn't existence but believe he doesn't anyway you've made a leap of faith.

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Your argument keeps more useless the more you repeat it. There is of course no scientific way to prove or disprove the existence of the divine. Assuming you believe in a benevolent deity (and if you believe in a random and capricious one then who gives a crap what's real anyway) then there are certainly a lot of injustices and problems in the world that are very difficult to rationalize with the existence of a god. There are a lot of contradictions between religious doctrines, and almost as many within single doctrines. How do you explain these things? If you are going to use the argument that God is beyond our knowing and our limited reasoning, then don't bother having a discussion in the first place because there's really no way to respond to that from any direction, whether you are for or against it.

It's not a leap of faith to not believe in God - it's a conclusion reached logically based on repeated observations of reality. Could my observations be faulty or misintrepreted? Of course. However, based upon my knowledge it seems the most reasonable conclusion. That's all scientific theory is anyway - the most likely answer based on experimentation and calculation. No one can be 100% certain there is no God (or of anything, really), but it sure seems plausible to me. To call that a "leap of faith" equivalent to that of believing in God is being obtuse. The burden of proof is on those who believe in God, not the other way around.