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    It is not the case that Swinburne's cumulative-case theism holds that divine attributes are confirmed by the total evidence set, not by creation alone, making piecemeal refutation of the inference insufficient.

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    • 1.Adding independent weak evidential pieces that individually fail to establish theism creates an appearance of strength through aggregation without solving base problems.
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    • 2.Cumulative cases risk confirmation bias: the theist selectively includes supportive evidence while dismissing competing naturalistic explanations of the same phenomena.
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    • 3.If each component fails probabilistic thresholds individually, combining them may violate probabilistic principles and constitute logical sleight-of-hand rather than valid inference.
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    • 1.Complex phenomena (cosmology, fine-tuning, consciousness, moral objectivity) individually underdetermine theism, but jointly increase explanatory power.
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    • 2.Cumulative reasoning reflects rational inference in other domains: medical diagnosis and historical explanation also integrate multiple weak evidential threads.
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    • 3.Refuting one evidential line doesn't undermine the case if other evidence remains; resilience across domains strengthens rather than weakens the overall inference.
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