God shall smite thee.. or not.

Doesn't it bother you atheists that you are using the exact same argument as the religeous ones, but only reversed?

- You can't prove that goes doesn't exist.
- I don't have to prove that something doesn't exist.

- true until proven false
- false until proven true

How can a self respecting man of science rape logic like this?

What makes you so confident that existence or nonexistence is unprovable?  Can you prove it?

My intuition is that a higher power would be able to impart knowledge of truth.  I feel like the nonexistent case would have less likelihood of a proof, but I guess maybe it's there and they can't articulate it in a way that convinces me.  I can't really feel confident in anything other than my own lack of understanding.  I don't really understand the attitude that a person on the correct side with proof should look down on every person who misunderstands though.