Why do atheists always argue about the existence of suffering in the world as meaning God doesn't exist when it doesn't prove anything?

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Why do atheists always argue about the existence of suffering in the world as meaning God doesn't exist when it doesn't prove anything?

Existence of evil => God doesn’t exist

Similarly, a religious person can easily refute the argument

A rational person can easily refute a flat-earther argument that the surface of the Earth is not curved. For a flat-earther, however, his (or her) argument against a curved earth, is convincing.

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They bring up the argument because they find it convincing.

Question: Why do atheists always argue about the existence of suffering in the world as meaning God doesn't exist when it doesn't prove anything?

For some atheists, however, the argument is convincing.

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