(April 16, 2014 at 6:30 pm)Ben Davis Wrote:(April 16, 2014 at 6:23 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Sorry, I don't follow how that works.The initial first premise 'weird things happen only if god exists' is equivalent to 'weird things happen because god exists' therefore is an assumption rather than a contingency. Heywood later revised this to 'weird things happen if god exists' which corrects the premise from an assumption to a contingency.
I don't agree. It's equivalent to "weird things happen if-and-only-if god exists", and I fail to see the distinction between that and 'weird things happen if god exists".
Honestly, I don't get the controversy. Heywood has admitted that the premise is false and the argument unsound, which makes it pretty much irrelevant - whether it's fallacious or not.