
Originally Posted by
vern
There is a name for your logic. It is called a logical fallacy ... a mistake in reasoning ... specifically ... Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
I think you are mistaken. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is basically saying, "Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one." That is NOT present in my argument.
An example of the fallacy you incorrectly claim I am making is as follows:
From Attacking Faulty Reasoning by T. Edward Damer:
"I can't help but think that you are the cause of this problem; we never had any problem with the furnace until you moved into the apartment." The manager of the apartment house, on no stated grounds other than the temporal priority of the new tenant's occupancy, has assumed that the tenant's presence has some causal relationship to the furnace's becoming faulty.
I think my argument is more of the (correct) form reductio ad absurdum.
The argument I have given in previous posts is not, by the way, based on religion, but mainly on logic. It is quite independent of religion and is acceptable even to atheists.