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    The absence of convincing evidence for God's existence is... — Carmelics
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    The absence of convincing evidence for God's existence is a good reason to believe that God does not exist

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    • 1.Bayesian epistemology holds that rational belief update requires proportioning credence to available evidence, not hypothetical future evidence.
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    • 2.If a maximally powerful being exists, Its causal reach extends to all empirically accessible domains, making Its absence from evidence epistemically significant.
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    • 3.J.L. Schellenberg's argument from divine hiddenness shows a perfectly loving God would ensure sufficient evidence exists for any sincere seeker, yet such evidence is absent.
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    • 1.Russell's teapot principle establishes that the burden of proof lies with those asserting existence of undetected entities, not with those withholding assent.
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    • 2.Unlike other undetected entities, God is stipulated to be omnipresent and causally active in the natural world, making the evidential silence especially probative.
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    • 1.Whenever assuming a positive existential claim is true would lead one to expect grounds for its truth, the absence of such grounds is a good reason to believe the claim is false
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    • 2.A God would be likely to provide convincing evidence of Her existence
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    • 3.There is an absence of such convincing evidence
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    The evidence for God's existence is lacking92%Theism is very probably false, even when the evidence for God's existe...90%There is an absence of such convincing evidence89%It is possible that God does not exist.87%

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    Perhaps, however, an even more narrowly restricted principle would do the trick: whenever the assumption that a positive existential claim is true would lead one to expect to have grounds for its truth, the absence of such grounds is a good reason to believe that the claim is false. It might then be argued that (i) a God would be likely to provide us with convincing evidence of Her existence and so (ii) the absence of such evidence is a good reason to believe that God does not exist. This transf
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