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    Challenges→The most promising defense of criteriological criteria is that the criteria effectively rule out explanations other than the truth of the claim

    Criteriological criteria that presuppose no prior theological commitments cannot themselves supply the prior probability needed to rule out naturalistic alternatives.

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    • 1.Neutral criteria cannot assign low prior probability to naturalism without already assuming theism's background plausibility.
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    • 2.Prior probabilities require a framework; purely formal criteria lack the substantive commitments needed to establish such frameworks.
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    • 3.Any criterion succeeding against naturalism must implicitly weight certain outcomes as improbable—a weighting that embeds theological assumptions.
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    • 1.Criteria like explanatory power, parsimony, and coherence function effectively in science without presupposing theological commitments.
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    • 2.Prior probabilities can be established through principled agnosticism about metaphysics, not requiring theological framework.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'neutral to all worldviews' with 'incapable of discriminating'; criteria can be neutral yet still constrain possibilities.
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