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    Even if God must create the best feasible world, HI's pre... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If the best feasible world contains suffering statistically identical to what HI predicts, HI's predictive success provides no differential evidence against theism.

    Even if God must create the best feasible world, HI's predictive success still supports the hypothesis that suffering patterns follow natural/indifferent processes, not intentional optimization.

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    Key Terms

    Feasible world(as used in arguments about whether God would create the best possible universe)
    A possible version of reality that could actually exist given the laws of logic and nature—not just any imaginary scenario, but one that's genuinely possible.
    God(Classical theism; used to fix the referent of 'G' in the Bayesian formulation)
    An eternal, personal being of maximal power, knowledge, and goodness who created the universe
    Indifferent processes(as used to contrast with purposeful, deliberate design)
    Natural events or systems that have no awareness, intention, or preference—like gravity or random chance operating without a purpose.
    Intentional optimization(as used to describe what we'd expect if God carefully designed the world)
    Deliberately arranging things to achieve a specific desired outcome or to make something as good as possible.

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    A construction that imaginatively utilizes both theoretical ideas and perceptual facts to forecast the possible consequences of various operations
    predictive success(Second root of virtuous predictivism)
    The empirical demonstration that the entailed consequence N is true

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