(June 28, 2011 at 8:21 pm)Epimethean Wrote: There is no onus on the atheist to prove that god does not exist. The invisible pink unicorn works fine to explain this.
Comparing atheism to the lack of belief in unicorns is absurd and I am sure you are well aware of this. Atheism is a philosophy, and gives birth to several worldviews. The onus is equally on both sides. Atheists do not like this fact because they know that it makes their position far more irrational than something like agnosticism.