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Originally Posted by Pim Pendergast
If I were God, I would/ wouldn’t… I wasn’t sure what to call this one, so I made up a name for it. Perhaps someone else on this godly forum knows the proper name. This is when people try to disprove God’s existence by claiming that if they God they would do things differently. For example, Richard Dawkins claimed that if God were real, He would have created fewer species. People often say something like, “If I were God, I wouldn’t allow suffering in the world; therefore God doesn’t exist.” Just because you might do things differently if you were God doesn’t mean God doesn’t exist. Personally, I wouldn’t do anything differently if I were God. He is perfect.
Can anyone else think of other fallacies?
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If I were God I'd know how to create a universe.
The universe exists.
Therefore I am God.
Let's face it, that's what they're saying in effect. Would that be
affirming the consequent?