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    The evidential force of general facts favoring omni-theism over source physicalism is at least significantly offset by more specific facts favoring source physicalism over omni-theism.

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    • 1.Philo's argument in Hume's Dialogues shows that analogical inference from finite effects cannot establish infinite divine attributes without evidential overshoot.
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    • 2.When omni-theism predicts general facts like consciousness or moral order, the specific distributions of suffering, cognitive bias, and evolutionary waste are more parsimonious under physicalism.
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    • 3.Bayesian likelihoodism, as developed by Sober, requires that evidential weight track likelihood ratios at the most specific evidential level available, not merely general patterns.
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    • 1.Draper's skeptical theism critique establishes that an omnipotent God's reasons are epistemically opaque, which symmetrically weakens omni-theism's predictive advantage over general facts.
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    • 2.If omni-theism's explanatory gain on general facts is purchased by invoking inscrutable divine purposes, then source physicalism's precise fit to specific biological and neurological data constitutes unrebutted net evidence.
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    • 1.Some general facts about certain topics are more probable given omni-theism than given source physicalism.
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    • 2.More specific facts about those same topics, conditioned on the general facts, are significantly more probable given source physicalism than given omni-theism.
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    • 3.When specific evidence counterbalances general evidence, the net evidential force is reduced.
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    Key Terms

    Evidential force(as used in epistemology)
    The power or strength of something to serve as proof or evidence that something is actually true.
    offset(as what cannot happen to wrongful convictions)
    Balanced out or canceled out—as if the good outweighs or compensates for the bad.
    omni-theism(Used as the target hypothesis being challenged by probabilistic atheistic arguments)
    The belief in the existence of an omni-God (a God possessing all-encompassing attributes such as omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence)
    source physicalism(The alternative hypothesis employed in the low priors argument)
    An alternative hypothesis to omni-theism, posited as many times more probable than omni-theism; argued to be compatible with some forms of theism in which God is an emergent entity

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    A thorough examination of the arguments for and against premise (1) is obviously impossible here, but it is worth mentioning that a defense of this premise need not claim that the known facts typically thought by natural theologians to favor omni-theism over competing hypotheses like source physicalism have no force. Instead, it could be claimed that whatever force they have is offset at least to some significant degree by more specific facts favoring source physicalism over omni-theism. Natural
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