Strong Atheism starts from faith

[Tiberius]

I think what leo meant by a "null hypothesis" is a "default position". The default position should be non-existence, but that is a very different thing to claiming something doesn't exist. To all extensive purposes, God doesn't exist since the evidence hasn't in any way been conclusive. However, this doesn't mean that evidence won't come along that proves God's existence, or that God is in a state of "non-existence" just because we haven't got the evidence yet.