Theism and Explanation - Appeared-to-Blogly

Potential Theistic Explanations 99
as a potential explanation of some state of affairs only if we cannot conceive
of any better way in which the posited divine goal could have been
attained. If we cannot make any of these judgements, as sceptics would
argue, then there can be no theistic explanations. But even if we can,
we can have only a modest degree of confi dence in the outcome. We can
never be confi dent that any particular theistic hypothesis has explanatory
force. It follows that even a moderate degree of scepticism—such as that
urged by many theists themselves—will undermine our confi dence in a
proposed theistic explanation.