Ron Davies said, in part:

But atheism--saying there is proof there is no God--is just as unsupportable as a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Ron, as a person who has to describe himself as an atheist I have to quarrel with that statement, or at least the part before the second dash. As phrased, it comes across as being a definition of atheism, and as such is defective.

Atheism is merely saying, "I'm convinced (or 'of the opinion') that there is no god." Note lower case g.

It's certainly true that there are a lot of atheists who make the assertion that "there is proof there is no God", which I agree with you is insupportable, but such an extreme position is not a sine qua non of atheism.

Dave Oesterreich