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pfdietz 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I should have loved biology (2020)

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.

mistermann 9 months ago [–]

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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