Reply To: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Catch yourself, the absence of evidence to support the claim of gravity is evidence that there is no gravity even though no evidence was brought to discredit the theory of gravity.
Here is how people use the phrase “lack of evidence …”,
Lack of evidence for theory A doesn’t mean it’s been discredited (not no evidence is not the same thing as evidence)
However If I claim A because of observation B (usually how theory are born), and B doesn’t really happen, I do not need to evidence against your claim A, because you’ve given an expectation of B. Often, there isn’t an expectation of B. If I come along and say C is inconsistent, that’s evidence against.
Bemigman, read my first post, that is what I wrote above. It wasn’t clear because the second was a follow up.