the conclusion that with contingency upon logic but necessity of logic, a deist or pantheist universe is valid.

Sure, as long as the concept of logic is gutted and the parties accept that there are no standards of correct reasoning because “eh, god can do anything infinitely, don’t test it, k?”.

The argument is essentially that as long as you move the goalpost in tiny increments, something a billion sets away is the same thing as the original set. There is no explanation as to why this should be accepted. It’s every bit as valid to say that a single step removed from A is NOT A. One could argue that it’s not only unreasonable to say that A is NOT A, but that it’s therefore impossible for god to ever make A more than once, as