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    It is not the case that If alternative secular groundings of moral rationality are coherent, the argument's first premise that God is *required* fails by modus tollens.

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    • 1.Coherence alone doesn't establish metaphysical truth; a system can be internally consistent yet fail to ground normativity in mind-independent reality.
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    • 2.Secular frameworks may presuppose unexplained moral facts (consciousness, rational agency) that require theistic explanation for ultimate grounding.
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    • 3.Modus tollens requires the antecedent to be true; critics dispute whether 'alternative groundings are coherent' has been adequately established.
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    • 1.Contractualism, utilitarianism, and Kantian constructivism offer internally consistent frameworks for deriving moral obligations without theistic foundations.
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    • 2.If coherent non-theistic moral systems exist, then God's necessity for moral rationality is empirically falsified, making the premise logically untenable.
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    • 3.The burden of proof rests on theistic arguments to show why secular groundings fail, not on secular theories to prove God unnecessary.
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