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    Challenges→Belief in God is founded on morality rather than theoretical knowledge

    William Alston and Reformed epistemologists argue that sensus divinitatis provides direct, non-inferential warrant for theistic belief independent of moral reasoning.

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    • 1.Sensory experiences of God (if genuine) provide immediate epistemic access comparable to perceptual knowledge of physical objects.
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    • 2.Theistic belief widely precedes moral reasoning developmentally, suggesting a non-inferential cognitive origin in most believers.
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    • 3.Requiring moral arguments for warrant creates an unfair epistemic double standard—we don't require arguments for other basic perceptions.
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    • 1.Religious experiences vary wildly across cultures and contradict each other, unlike sensory perception, suggesting they lack reliability.
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    • 2.No independent verification method exists for sensus divinitatis experiences, making them unfalsifiable and epistemically suspect.
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    • 3.Cognitive science explains religious experience through naturalistic mechanisms (temporal lobe stimulation, pattern recognition), undermining warrant claims.
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