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    An argument from moral facts alone to God's existence has... — Carmelics
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    An argument from moral facts alone to God's existence has limited force

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    • 1.Moral facts as such increase the likelihood of theism only a little
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    • 2.Arguments that provide only marginal probabilistic support are not powerful arguments for a conclusion
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    • 1.Moral facts are not merely incrementally suggestive of theism but are best explained *only* by robust theism, making the inference deductively near-certain.
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    • 2.Robert Adams argues that irreducible moral obligations logically require a personal lawgiver, not merely a probabilistic nudge toward one.
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    • 3.An argument whose conclusion is the uniquely adequate explanation of its premises carries maximal, not marginal, inferential force.
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    • 1.C.S. Lewis and G.E.M. Anscombe both argued that the very concept of moral obligation is unintelligible without a commander, making theism conceptually necessary rather than merely probable.
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    • 2.When a premise entails a conclusion as a condition of its own coherence, the resulting argument is not weak but analytically compelling.
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    A variety of arguments have been developed that God is necessary to explain human awareness of moral truth (or moral knowledge, if one believes that this moral awareness amounts to knowledge). Richard Swinburne (2004, 218), for example, argues that there is no “great probability that moral awareness will occur in a Godless universe.” On Swinburne’s view, moral truths are either necessary truths or contingent truths that are grounded in necessary truths. For example, it is obviously contingent th
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