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    Challenges→A successful moral argument for God's existence requires both defending the objectivity of morality and demonstrating that theism best explains that objectivity.

    Moral objectivity can be established on purely naturalist grounds (e.g., Railton's reductive naturalism, Parfit's non-naturalism) without invoking theism.

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    • 1.Moral facts can reduce to natural facts about well-being, preferences, or flourishing without requiring supernatural foundations.
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    • 2.Theism fails to explain morality: the Euthyphro dilemma shows divine command doesn't ground objectivity or necessity.
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    • 3.Scientific and metaphysical parsimony favors naturalist explanations over theistic ones when both adequately ground morality.
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    • 1.Naturalism cannot bridge the explanatory gap between descriptive facts about nature and normative moral facts about 'ought'.
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    • 2.Reductive naturalism makes moral facts causally inert or collapses them into non-moral properties, undercutting objectivity claims.
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    • 3.Non-naturalist objectivity (like Parfit's) abandons naturalism's explanatory advantage, so the claim conflates two different positions.
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