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176 no strong and convincing evidence to prove His existence. Such atheists are the majority and I think that more than 90% of the atheists fall in this category. Second, there are those who hold the belief that existence of God can neither be proved nor disproved and, therefore, the issue cannot be resolved with arguments. For all practical purposes, these people too do not believe in God. Third, there are those who believe that there is no God; i. e. the non-existence of God is established by conclusive arguments. All the same, they really base their belief not on such arguments, but on the assertion that there is no evidence for the existence of God. However, they present some arguments only incidentally. These people form a small minority, and probably account for less than one percent of all atheists. The stand of the three groups can be summarised as ‘rejec- tion due to lack of proof ’, ‘rejection and denial due to the lack of possibility of proof or disproof ’, and ‘rejection due to proof of non-existence’, in this order. The first group is the largest in number, the third are very few in number, and the second are a little more than [the third]. The atheists in Europe and America have chosen for themselves the name ‘agnostics’, which literally means that they just do not know. They have taken the stand that they have no evidence of the existence of God; not that they have proof of His non-existence. Thus, a large majority of atheists do not believe in God because they have no evidence of His exist- ence. Here it is not our purpose to refute the beliefs of these peo- ple, because the refutation of this stand covers this presentation so far, supplementing each positive argument by dismissing vari- ous doubts. Other positive arguments relating to the next section