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47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 April 2007 09:15PM

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Comment author: AndyCossyleon 08 November 2010 05:26:34PM 0 points [-]

A very good point!

However, the God hypothesis allows for the coexistence of deep rules (a world in which conscious beings exist) and surface rules (a world in which tsunamis and earthquakes [do not] kill hundreds of thousands of them), so this "best" answer falls flat: theodicy still fails.