[metmom]

When I point that out, you respond by saying that the Catholic Church affirms things not on positive evidence but on the absence of refuting evidence!

Problem is, MD, I have seen that very argument used on these various threads. It is especially prevalent when ti comes to discussion of the bodily assumption of Mary.

I cannot recall the specific threads on which I've seen that otherwise I WOULD provide the link, but I can let you know next time I see it.

[Mad Dawg]

The old saying is “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” A fallacy (as distinct from a falsehood) does not become more or less fallacious by repetition.

(I seem to be in ‘Confucius Say’ mode today.)

I was commenting more on the structure of the argument (to which “Fallacious” can be applied — or not) than on the thesis.

[papertyger]

I cannot recall the specific threads on which I've seen that otherwise I WOULD provide the link...

You can't recall them because they do not exist

At worst, you've been told "Biblical silence is not denial."

So what's your problem with that?

[RnMomof7]

Bingo!