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From: Warp
Date: 2 Nov 2009 12:05:16
Message: <4aef114b@news.povray.org>

Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>
http://directionlessbones.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/challenge-suggest-a-more-evil-principle-than-this-one/

  I wonder what this fallacy is called:

1) If God is good, then X.
2) Clearly, not X.
3) Hence there is no God.

  Is it a non-sequitur? Deduction #3 does not follow from the other two.
(What would follow is "God is not good", not "there is no God".)

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                                                          - Warp

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