“Policy debates should not appear one-sided” doesn’t in this case give credence to the idea that a world with suffering implies the possibility of the God. Quite the opposite. That is a post-hoc justification for what should be seen as evidence to lower the probability of “belief in just and benevolent God.” This is analogous to EY’s example of the absence of sabotage being used as justification for the concentration camps in “Conservation of Expected Evidence”
I didn’t mean to suggest that the existence of suffering is evidence that there is a God. What I meant was, the known fact of “shared threat → people come together” makes the reality of suffering less powerful evidence against the existence of a God.
“Policy debates should not appear one-sided” doesn’t in this case give credence to the idea that a world with suffering implies the possibility of the God. Quite the opposite. That is a post-hoc justification for what should be seen as evidence to lower the probability of “belief in just and benevolent God.” This is analogous to EY’s example of the absence of sabotage being used as justification for the concentration camps in “Conservation of Expected Evidence”
I didn’t mean to suggest that the existence of suffering is evidence that there is a God. What I meant was, the known fact of “shared threat → people come together” makes the reality of suffering less powerful evidence against the existence of a God.