I Know That God Does Not Exist

Absence of evidence is always evidence of absence, because that's how we detect absence - by the lack of evidence.Trust me, there's no evidence whatsoever for the proposition that a herd of elephants is not stampeding through your living room besides the complete lack of evidence that they are. Right, but it's clearly nonsense to take the two positions - "there is a tea pot orbiting the Sun" and "there is not a tea pot orbiting the Sun" - and suggest that they are both equally supported by the lack of any evidence for tea pots in orbit of the Sun. (Well, I guess all the tea pots on Earth technically orbit the Sun, but you know what we mean.)

Eh. You could support the possibility of such a figure, but to claim anything about it, including its existence, would be to claim knowledge that you've just said that you cannot by definition have.Anything at all could happen outside of the universe. I mean, anything. We can't know anything about it so it's just the realm of imagination.

All that stuff is an absence of evidence, though - the absence of evidence that elephants are obstructing your view of the room, absence of evidence that the floor is not intact, absence of evidence that the room smells like elephant shit, and so on.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Conspicuous absence of evidence is positive evidence.