To be fair, I think it can be boiled down to that. To me, god is like any other mythical creature. I do not believe in him. I do not think he exists. If pressed to "prove that he does not (or cannot) exist", I admit that I cannot prove that he doesn't (or cannot possibly) exist. But I would give the same response if someone asked me whether I can prove that unicorns do not exist. Or Bigfoot, or fairies, or Santa Claus. It's really only an issue to people who believe that Bigfoot is real. Or Santa. Or god.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
