He didn't argue it was an absolute truth.
He said that "absence of evidence IS evidence of absence, but not proof"
He said that "absence of evidence IS evidence of absence, but not proof"
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.