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Hey everyone, today is the Feast of the Bodily Assumption of Mary, so in this episode I'm going to be talking about how I reply to a particular argument from silence against this dogma and

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one of Gavin Orlin's videos on the bodily assumption of Mary but unfortunately that file became corrupted and I lost all the video

elements. I was only able to save the audio. So for today's episode I'm recreating a part of that

original episode and just focusing on a more general

argument from silence against Mary's assumption that many Protestants make. The

argument basically says that Mary was not assumed into heaven because if she were, then we'd

expect the early church fathers to mention it. But we need to be careful because

arguments from silence can be faulty. An author may not mention something even though it still happened.

For example, Francis Woods is a historian who defends the fringe claim that Marco Polo

never went to China because Polo's travel diary never

mentions the Great Wall and Chinese sources don't mention Marco Polo.

But mainstream historians reject Woods' claim that it was necessary that these things would be recorded in order for us to know Marko Polo went to China in the 13th century.

Protestant apologists have a similar burden of proof when they say the church fathers

would have mentioned Mary's assumption into heaven.

It can't just be fitting for them to do this.

They'd have to show it's necessary or that the fathers absolutely would have

done this, which is a high bar for the argument from silence to make.

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