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    It is not the case that Moral knowledge provides some support for theistic belief

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    • 1.Moral knowledge can be fully explained by evolutionary debunking accounts (Sharon Street, Richard Joyce) without invoking objective moral facts.
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    • 2.If moral intuitions are adaptive responses shaped by natural selection, they track reproductive fitness rather than mind-independent moral truths.
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    • 3.Theism therefore inherits the same epistemic burden as moral realism without gaining additional explanatory leverage over the naturalist.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant's autonomous grounding of morality in pure practical reason demonstrates that moral knowledge requires no theistic foundation for its justification.
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    • 2.If moral law derives its authority from rational self-legislation rather than divine command, theism becomes explanatorily redundant rather than supportive.
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    • 3.The inference from moral knowledge to theistic belief commits the 'god of the gaps' fallacy by treating unexplained naturalist difficulty as positive theistic evidence.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Moral realism (the view that moral facts are objective) is true
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    • 2.Non-theistic accounts of how moral knowledge is possible face real questions about their plausibility
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    • 3.If non-theistic explanations of moral knowledge are implausible, theism gains explanatory support
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