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Another insight from Ravi Zacharias' podcast:

Here is a definition of atheism he quoted in the 12 of December podcast, "Is Atheism Dead? Is God Alive?":

Atheism is the deliberate definite dogmatic denial of the existence of God. It is not satisfied with appropriate truth or relative truth, but claims to see the ins and outs of the game quite clearly, being the absolute denial of the absolute.
~Étienne Borne

I think this is a good definition of atheism. The only problem is the last phrase: "the absolute denial of the absolute." The problem with that is simple: You cannot absolutely deny the absolute. The only way it is possible to make an absolute statement is if "absolute" exists. It would be like saying, "I don't exist." Well, how can you make that statement if you don't exist? You can't. Neither can you make an absolute statement declaring that there is no absolute. You have just contradicted yourself if you have done so.

It's like what Ken Ham says (This is not a direct quote, I just remember him saying something like this.), "How can you say that God does not exist? Have you been everywhere at once and looked under every rock and behind every tree and proven that He was not there? How can you, a finite being, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that God, an infinite being, does not exist?"

You cannot absolutely deny the absolute.