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    It is not the case that If our epistemic position relative to divine reasons resembles a child's inability to grasp a surgeon's justification for causing pain, then the absence of perceived justifying reasons carries negligible evidential weight.

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    • 1.The analogy fails: children can eventually understand surgery, but we have no evidence we could ever comprehend divine reasons, even in principle.
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    • 2.Invoking cognitive gaps to dismiss all negative evidence makes the claim unfalsifiable and immunizes it from rational evaluation.
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    • 3.If we cannot assess divine justifications even hypothetically, the claim provides no grounds to distinguish a benevolent God from an indifferent one.
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    • 1.Epistemic humility is warranted when cognitive gaps between agents are vast; children genuinely cannot evaluate surgical justifications.
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    • 2.Absence of perceived justification ≠ absence of actual justification; the gap itself suggests our inability to access divine reasoning.
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    • 3.If God's reasons operate at a fundamentally different logical level, our failure to perceive them is predictable and uninformative.
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