Editing Existence of God (section)

==== Positive atheism ====

{{Main|Negative and positive atheism}}

[[Positive atheism]] (also called "strong atheism" and "hard atheism") is a proposed form of atheism that asserts that no deities exist.<ref name="Flew1976">{{Cite book |last=Flew |first=Antony |title=The Presumption of Atheism, and other Philosophical Essays on God, Freedom, and Immortality |publisher=Barnes and Noble |year=1976 |location=New York |pages=14ff |chapter=The Presumption of Atheism |quote=In this interpretation an atheist becomes: not someone who positively asserts the non-existence of God; but someone who is simply not a theist. Let us, for future ready reference, introduce the labels 'positive atheist' for the former and 'negative atheist' for the latter. |author-link=Antony Flew |access-date=2011-12-10 |chapter-url=http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/flew01.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051012172554/http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/flew01.htm |archive-date=2005-10-12 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="mmartin">{{Cite book |last=Martin |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ISBN0521842700 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Atheism |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-521-84270-9 |access-date=2016-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502153531/http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521842700 |archive-date=2015-05-02 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="synonyms">{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=Definitions of the term "Atheism" |url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/atheist4.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206205828/http://www.religioustolerance.org/atheist4.htm |archive-date=2010-12-06 |access-date=2010-06-01 |publisher=Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance}}</ref> The strong atheist explicitly asserts the non-existence of gods.