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Atheism does not profess any such faith. The null hypothesis is always presumed correct unless evidence is presented for the alternative hypothesis. Non-existence is kind of the ontological null hypothesis for basically everything, going all the way back to "I think therefore I am." From there we have entire branches of philosophy which deal with the nature of perception, knowledge and truth which leads us to several ideas for inferring "existence" through various combinations of observation and reasoning.

Famously though, influential modernists like Kant and Hegel and Hume all tried to reform the idea of "God" into a question of the abstract rather than the concrete, which leads into a much more interesting semantic conversation. Eg, like you can say the phenomenonical unicorn exists because we understand the abstraction without needing to observe it directly. But at the same time, we can say that nobody has ever observed the material Unicorn, or "unicorn in itself." Likewise, atheists can acknowledge God as an abstract concept which has real moral and metaphysical implications, while understanding that there is no evidence of material existence.