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    Challenges→The argument from evil should be formulated as an evidential (inductive/probabilistic) argument for the claim that existing evils make it unlikely that God exists, rather than as a deductive argument for the impossibility of God and evil coexisting.

    If the probabilistic argument requires contested assumptions about what God would likely permit, the inductive step imports hidden theological commitments that undermine its secular force.

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    Hidden assumptions(explaining why systems fail when moved to new contexts where those unspoken beliefs don't hold true)
    Beliefs or ideas we're using without realizing it—we take them for granted without ever stating them clearly.
    Secular force(as used in philosophy of religion)
    The power or convincingness of an argument that doesn't depend on religious beliefs and could appeal to people regardless of their faith.
    The problem of evil (implied context)(as the likely topic of the statement above)
    A famous philosophical question asking how God could be all-powerful and all-good if evil exists in the world.
    Theological commitments(as used in philosophy of religion)
    Beliefs or assumptions about God and religion that someone has already accepted, often without stating them openly.

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    inductive step(as used in mathematical induction)
    The part of a mathematical proof where you show that if something is true for one case, it must also be true for the next case—like proving dominoes will keep falling if you knock one down.
    probabilistic argument(Classification of argument structures for miracle claims)
    An argument that aims to show that the conclusion is more probable than not, more probable than some fixed standard (e.g., 0.99), or far more probable given the evidence adduced than it is considered independent of that evidence.

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