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Re:I Should Have Loved Biology by pfdietz on Sunday April 21, 2024 @10:06PM (#40110906)
An explanation for why X is true must also be an explanation of why not X is false. But God could perfectly well explain why not X is true and X is false. If God has no predictive power, if it's consistent with anything, it can't be used to distinguish between any possibilities, and hence can't explain why they should hold.
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Re:I Should Have Loved Biology by mistermann on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:37PM (#40139461)
A problem: there is no requirement for explanations to be true. In fact, untrue explanations are very often preferred, if not ~mandatory.
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