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    It is not the case that We can have good reason to believe something is both X and Y even if we cannot understand how it could be both.

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    • 1.Wave-particle duality is not a case of genuinely contradictory properties but of context-dependent measurement outcomes described by a unified formalism.
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    • 2.Analogies drawn from physics to theology are only epistemically useful when the logical structure of the puzzles is relevantly similar.
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    • 3.Divine simplicity requires reconciling properties that are categorically distinct in ways that wave-particle duality, governed by a single Schrödinger equation, is not.
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    • 1.Quine and Duhem established that anomalous empirical results license belief revision across an entire theoretical web, not indefinite tolerance of contradiction.
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    • 2.The wave-particle case produced new theory (quantum mechanics) that dissolved rather than preserved the apparent contradiction.
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    • 3.Appealing to scientific mystery to license theological mystery conflates productive aporia, which drives inquiry forward, with permanently opaque predication.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Light behaves both like a particle and like a wave.
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    • 2.We have good reason to believe light is both a particle and a wave despite the difficulty or impossibility of understanding how it could be both.
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