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    It is not the case that Ockham's razor favors the hypothesis requiring fewer auxiliary assumptions, and a limited deity requires no theodicy to explain natural evil.

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    • 1.A limited deity hypothesis adds its own assumptions: what are the limits, why those limits, why worship it?
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    • 2.Many theodicies (soul-making, free will defense) don't require more assumptions than finite deity explanations do.
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    • 3.Ockham's razor applies to entities, not attributes; removing omnibenevolence while keeping omnipotence adds conceptual problems.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Omnipotence + omniscience + omnibenevolence create logical tensions requiring complex theodicies to resolve.
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    • 2.A deity with limited power straightforwardly explains why preventable suffering exists without additional hypotheses.
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    • 3.Parsimony favors theories minimizing unfalsifiable claims; unlimited divine attributes are harder to test than bounded ones.
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