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    Multiple inductive arguments together may provide substantial support for theistic belief

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    • 1.There are several phenomena that each seem more probable in a theistic universe than in a godless universe
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    • 2.It becomes increasingly improbable that all such phenomena would occur in the absence of God as more such phenomena are identified
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    • 3.Arguments that individually fall short of demonstrating theism is likely true can jointly constitute substantial evidence
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    • 1.Multiple arguments sharing a common background assumption (theism) cannot treat each other as independent confirming evidence without circularity.
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    • 2.Bayesian convergence requires evidential independence; arguments drawing on the same theistic prior inflate apparent confirmation artificially.
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    • 3.C.D. Broad and later Elliott Sober showed that cumulative case arguments conflate correlated evidence with genuinely additive probabilistic support.
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    • 1.Each phenomenon cited as theistic evidence (consciousness, fine-tuning, morality) admits rival naturalistic explanations that also accumulate cumulatively.
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    • 2.A cumulative case for naturalism built from the same phenomena can match or exceed the theistic cumulative case, undermining its special probative force.
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    • 3.Paul Draper's 'hypothesis of indifference' demonstrates that naturalistic hypotheses can systematically absorb the same evidential base without residual theistic surplus.
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    It may be true that creatures who belong to groups that behave altruistically will have some survival advantage over groups that lack such a trait. However, moral beliefs are not required in order to produce such behavior, since it is clear that “there are many species of animals that are naturally inclined to help others of their species, and yet do not have moral beliefs.” (Swinburne 2004, 217) If God exists, he has “significant reason to bring about conscious beings with moral awareness,” sin
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