[tacticalogic]

So again I aver that the “absence of evidence is evidence of absence” is a rational, effective defense – and the Achilles’ heel of evolution theory and among the best Creationist arguments in the crevo wars.

It was submitted earlier that TToE is does not add address abiogenesis, but that may people believe that it does because Darwin failed to explicitly say so.

That failure is not a weakness in the theory itself, because what the theory does address would be the same, with or without it.

It is not argument in the war itself, it's a rationialization for starting the war in the first place.

[Alamo-Girl]

An argument based on the "absence of evidence" is by definition not an argument about what was said but rather what was not said.