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    The existence of moral awareness provides some inductive ... — Carmelics
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    The existence of moral awareness provides some inductive support for belief in God

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    • 1.Moral awareness among conscious beings is more probable in a theistic universe than in a godless universe
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    • 2.If God exists, God has significant reason to bring about conscious beings with moral awareness
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    • 1.Rowe's evidential problem notes that gratuitous suffering among morally aware beings constitutes stronger counter-evidence against theism than moral awareness constitutes for it.
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    • 2.A God with significant reason to create moral awareness also has decisive reason to prevent awareness of pointless suffering, yet such suffering demonstrably exists.
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    • 3.When competing inductive considerations are weighed, the net evidential contribution of moral awareness to theistic probability remains negligible or negative.
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    • 1.Evolutionary debunking accounts (Street, Joyce) explain moral awareness as adaptive fiction without requiring truth-tracking or divine grounding.
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    • 2.If moral awareness is fully explained by natural selection pressures, its existence provides no additional probabilistic support for theism over naturalism.
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    It may be true that creatures who belong to groups that behave altruistically will have some survival advantage over groups that lack such a trait. However, moral beliefs are not required in order to produce such behavior, since it is clear that “there are many species of animals that are naturally inclined to help others of their species, and yet do not have moral beliefs.” (Swinburne 2004, 217) If God exists, he has “significant reason to bring about conscious beings with moral awareness,” sin
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