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    It is not the case that P4's claim that background knowledge does not entail God's existence conflates deductive entailment with overwhelming inductive support, making the premise too narrow.

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    • 1.P4 may correctly distinguish entailment from inductive support without conflating them—the claim requires showing P4 actually confuses these categories.
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    • 2.Requiring deductive entailment for metaphysical claims is reasonable if inductive cosmological arguments remain genuinely underdetermined by evidence.
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    • 3.Background knowledge could provide overwhelming inductive support while still failing to entail God's existence, making both claims compatible rather than contradictory.
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    • 1.Inductive arguments can provide rational warrant for belief even without deductive certainty, making entailment an artificially strict standard.
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    • 2.Cosmological and fine-tuning arguments operate inductively, yet P4 dismisses them by requiring deductive entailment, thus prejudging non-deductive reasoning.
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    • 3.In empirical contexts, we accept overwhelming probabilistic support as sufficient for knowledge; demanding deductive entailment creates an inconsistent epistemic standard.
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