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At last a simple question.
“What evidence do you have for this statement?”, Regarding statement:
“The bodily assumption of Mary is a myth that grew out of years and years of going astray from the pure gospel of Jesus as told by Him and His Apostles.”

From the Catholic Encyclopedia on the belief in the Assumption of Mary:

“The belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the book De Transitu Virginis, falsely ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis, and in a spurious letter attributed to St. Denis the Areopagite. If we consult genuine writings in the East, it is mentioned in the sermons of St. Andrew of Crete, St. John Damascene, St. Modestus of Jerusalem and others. In the West, St. Gregory of Tours (De gloria mart., I, iv) mentions it first. The sermons of St. Jerome and St. Augustine for this feast, however, are spurious. St. John of Damascus (P.G., I, 96) thus formulates the tradition of the Church of Jerusalem:

St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven.”

“...nobody of any stature testifying against it.”

Well, the apostle Paul said that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God”. (1 Cor. 15:50 NAB)

John of Damascus or Paul of apostle?

You cite evidence in favor of the Assumption of Mary as evidence against it? Some of the evidence comes from doubtful authority but it only adds to the authoritative evidence from Greek Father St. John of Damascus.

John of Damascus or Paul of apostle?

LOL. St. Paul never testified against the Assumption of Mary. When has there ever been negative authoritative testimony in direct reference to the Assumption of Mary?