However, to say that one has evidence for a belief is not to say that one’s overall evidence supports the belief. A man’s fingerprints might be on a murder weapon, and this is evidence he is guilty of the crime. However, there might also be powerful evidence that the man was nowhere near the crime scene at the time of the murder, and thus the overall evidence may support the man’s innocence. Similarly, an atheist might respond to my argument by claiming that even if we have some evidence for God’s
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