[jimt]

The real position is: "if I cannot perceive it WHY should I recognize it exists?"

I've always considered that position agnostic, rather than atheist. Isn't atheism a positive belief that God does not exist?

I've always considered that position (God positively doesn't exist) to be silly, as you can't prove a negative.

[Jason Kauppinen]

"I've always considered that position (God positively doesn't exist) to be silly, as you can't prove a negative."

I agree.

[r9etb]

as you can't prove a negative.

I dare you to prove that. ;-)

Actually, though, you can prove a negative, at least in some cases. I once took a rather painful Abstract Linear Algebra class that ended up proving that there was nothing after an "octonion," (or was it nothing after a 16-space transformation? -- I forget now...)