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    It is not the case that If God's existence generates testable predictions about the structure of evil (soul-making, moral development), positing God has genuine explanatory power over rival hypotheses.

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    • 1.Soul-making predictions are unfalsifiable: any evil amount can be rationalized as necessary for development, making the hypothesis immunized from refutation.
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    • 2.Naturalistic explanations (evolution, social learning) already successfully predict moral development without invoking God, eliminating explanatory advantage.
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    • 3.The hypothesis cannot explain why evil's distribution (genetic disease, childhood suffering) exceeds what moral development requires.
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    • 1.Soul-making theodicy predicts moral agents require genuine freedom and real obstacles, which matches observed patterns of human development.
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    • 2.God hypothesis explains why evil exists in degree and distribution needed for character growth, unlike naturalism which offers no such constraint.
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    • 3.We can test whether worlds with less evil would reduce virtue development opportunities, making the hypothesis empirically tractable.
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