Negative evidence—gratuitous suffering, religious diversity, divine hiddenness—constitutes counter-evidence that, when added to the cumulative calculus, plausibly outweighs the positive strands Mitchell and Swinburne cite.
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(comparing human benefits against animal harm in utilitarian calculations)
Is greater than or more important than when you're comparing two things on a scale.
Swinburne(in philosophy of religion)
Richard Swinburne, a famous British philosopher who wrote about God, religion, and the problem of evil—he argued that God's existence can be rationally defended despite the existence of evil in the world.
divine hiddenness(Central to the atheological argument discussed by Schellenberg 1993)
The phenomenon or argument concerning why a perfectly loving God does not make his existence unambiguously clear to all non-resistant individuals
negative evidence(language acquisition)
Information indicating which grammatical constructions are incorrect or impermissible, needed to recover from overgeneralization errors
religious diversity(Philosophy of religion)
The reality that multiple distinct religious traditions exist, raising questions about truth claims, justified belief, and salvation