Atheist arguments don't prove a negative; they disprove the theist arguments. Without theism, atheism wouldn't exist. Those who try to make it exist as a stand-alone are not really atheists but rather are material realists who believe atheism proves everything they believe about reality. Atheism doesn't prove anything. It doesn't even prove god doesn't exist. It merely disproves any theist argument that can be posited and it does it quite easily: every theist argument must presuppose god's existence which is invalid. So all the atheist has to do is locate the presupposition and the argument is disproven. To go beyond that is to go beyond atheism and so it really isn't atheism anymore but an aggressive material realist stance that calls itself atheism. Atheist means "not theist." That's all it was designed for--a rejection of theism based on the logical fallcy of theist argumentation which is the presupposition of the god's existence in the premise of the argument--an invalid position. Athism does not prove there no god, no soul, no continuance after death. Anyone who says it does simply does not know what they are talking about.
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