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    It is not the case that Stephen Wykstra and other skeptical theists argue that the inference from (1) to (2) fails not due to inductive weakness but due to a prior epistemic limitation: humans lack the cognitive access needed to identify all morally sufficient reasons God might have.

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    • 1.If God's reasons are entirely beyond human comprehension, the claim becomes unfalsifiable and empirically vacuous—immunizing theism from rational critique.
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    • 2.Skeptical theism commits us to radical agnosticism about all divine purposes, yet theists still make confident claims about God's goodness and intentions.
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    • 3.Even with cognitive limits, gratuitous suffering (e.g., animal pain before consciousness) appears unjustifiable under any plausible divine purpose.
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    • 1.Humans cannot comprehend all possible moral values or divine purposes, given our limited cognitive architecture and finite lifespan.
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    • 2.An omniscient being's reasons for permitting evil could involve morally sufficient goods imperceptible to creatures with our epistemic limitations.
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    • 3.The problem of evil assumes we can identify the absence of God's justification; but absence of evidence for justification isn't evidence of absence.
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