“No, it’s a conclusion based on evidence. Since there is not a shred of evidence for the existence of gods, the only reasonable conclusion is that they do not exist.”

First, if you are speaking about pure sensory evidence, you are correct. Second, if you are speaking about inferences and accept inference as a reliable basis of knowledge, all we can say is that most people make the inference from, for example, the design in nature that there is a master designer. Thirdly, there is a domain of evidence that I have not seen explored anywhere on the internet and that is the domain of the human psyche. This domain of evidence is vast. Let’s start with a simple question: Where do ideas come from?