When there is no evidence for or against something, do it require some sort of 'faith' that it doesn't exist? Do you 'put faith' in the idea that there are no fairies? There is no evidence whatsoever that an elephant was walking around in my basement last night while i slept - does that mean it requires 'faith' on my part to assume there was no elephant in the basement? Absolutely not - it only requires an ounce of critical thinking.
It doesn't take much 'faith' for atheists to 'not believe' in God either, just education on the natural forces at work on earth and an ounce of critical thinking. If there is some sort of superior intelligence, his presence was not needed to construct the earth (there is plenty of hard evidence for evolution now - watch the presentations from the Dover trial shredding creationist claims that there 'is no evidence', and theories on abiogenesis are becoming very detailed and entering a realm of real possibility now - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg).
So from an atheist point of view - who cares if a magic invisible man was or was not in the basement thousands of years ago? He didn't leave a shred evidence, and he certainly isn't there now.
- Lime