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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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