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You have no factual data God doesn't exist so your argument is also based on faith.
Wrong, the negative in this case does not need to be proven. Since it's an argument of existence, it's the positive which must be shown true. Otherwise, the negative can be assumed. That's how it works. How do you prove something is not there? Well there's nothing but lack of evidence for it being there. Essentially, the necessity to demonstrate a side comes on the behalf of the creation. If I claim leprechauns exist, someone can say "no they don't, prove it". It doesn't mean the guy is operating on faith that leprechauns do not exist; but is rather issuing a statement for proof. The claim isn't that god doesn't exist, the claim is that it does. So prove it. If not, then it doesn't take faith to not believe, but rather just a healthy dose of skepticism. If you start to collect convincing data, then ok; maybe I'll buy a faith sort of thing. But we're not at that point, and it's not faith but skepticism.