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    Challenges→The hypothesis of indifference (HI) does not clearly entail the negation of theism (T).

    If such a scenario is possible, then theism (T) could be true while the hypothesis of indifference (HI) is also true.

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    So far, this is simply a matter of probability theory. But now Draper introduces two substantive claims. The first is that the a priori probability of the hypothesis of indifference is not less than the a priori probability of theism, so that we have

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