Come and let us discuss atheism.

The standard of debate on this topic has moved so far beyond my rudimentary formal education AND my lifelong self-education that I don't feel I have anything much more to contribute without being patronised yet again.

However, just because I can't explain to an academic standard why it's impossible to prove a negative doesn't mean I'm necessarily wrong. It's always seemed self-evident to me that this isn't possible and my university educated friends agree: for example, how could anyone prove a particular thing does not exist anywhere in creation without producing concrete proof it didn't exist in every single part of the known world? Seems impossible to me ........