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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. Minimal Skeptical Theism 2. Minimal Skeptical Theism
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3. A Nonpartisan Challenge to Minimal Skeptical Theism 3. A Nonpartisan Challenge to Minimal Skeptical Theism
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4. Robust Religious Theists and Minimal Skeptical Theism 4. Robust Religious Theists and Minimal Skeptical Theism
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5. Two Final Thoughts 5. Two Final Thoughts
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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
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Abstract
Utilizing an argument from human knowledge of our cognitive limitations relative to the cognitive power of a perfect creator, this chapter, first, argues that minimal skeptical theism is strong enough to cast doubt on a premise in popular evidential arguments from evil yet weak enough to be epistemically rational. Second, this chapter explains why what is taken to be the best objection (that a perfect creator’s love for the creation would require the creator to disclose to suffering-capable persons the justifying reasons for allowing suffering) to this argument fails. Finally, this chapter responds to those who claim that accepting skeptical theism commits a religious theist to moral and religious skepticism by using Earl Conee’s and Richard Feldman’s “explanatory coherence view of evidential support” to explain how believing skeptical theism can be consistent with a robust religious form of life.
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