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The argument presents a cause with two effects (an asteroid causing both climate change and a firestorm), a lack of evidence that either of those effects caused some third effect (the triceratops's extinction), and a conclusion stating that we canβt say the original cause led to the third effect.
This argument features bad causal reasoning. Just because we donβt have direct evidence that the firestorm or climate change made the triceratops go extinct doesnβt mean that the asteroid is not to blame. Perhaps the impact itself, some other of its effects, or a combination of the firestorm and climatic change together, caused the extinction.
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