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    Challenges→The equiprobability-principle approach to the inductive step in the argument from evil is superior to alternative accounts.

    Inference to the best explanation, by contrast, does not require exhaustive enumeration of alternatives and is therefore less vulnerable to the skeptical theist's scope objection.

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    • 1.Exhaustive enumeration of alternatives is often practically impossible, making it an unreasonable epistemic standard for inference.
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    • 2.IBE can identify the best explanation among relevant candidates without cataloging every conceivable alternative explanation.
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    • 3.Skeptical theists who demand exhaustive alternatives commit to an impossible standard that undermines most ordinary reasoning practices.
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    • 1.Scope objection remains: without considering divine alternatives, IBE may miss genuinely superior explanations for evil's existence.
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    • 2.IBE's comparative advantage (not requiring exhaustion) doesn't address whether we've examined theistically relevant alternatives at all.
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    • 3.Dismissing scope concerns as impractical merely sidesteps the substantive question of whether our comparison set is adequately broad.
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