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    It is not the case that Alston and Wykstra argue that human cognitive limitations prevent any reliable judgment that a good God would have created differently, neutralizing the sceptic's evidential standard.

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    • 1.We can make reliable judgments about suffering's pointlessness in specific cases without needing omniscience about all divine alternatives.
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    • 2.If cognitive limitations block all judgments about God's choices, they equally block the theist's judgment that God exists and is good.
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    • 3.Some instances of suffering (e.g., animal pain before consciousness evolved) appear gratuitous even granting deep epistemic humility.
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    • 1.Humans lack access to God's complete knowledge of consequences, so we cannot reliably judge what a perfect being would choose to create.
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    • 2.Our evolved cognitive capacities are optimized for survival, not metaphysical reasoning about divine decision-making across infinite possibilities.
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    • 3.The skeptic's standard requires us to know what an omniscient being would prefer, but this exceeds our epistemic reach by design.
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