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3; I think the grey area is people not understanding logic. So when they hear, “logically necessary”, they think logic has just proven something. What that really means is, there is a hole in the logic, something that can’t be proven, yet we exist so we need a starting point, so we’ll put a place holder there. Of course, if physicists come up with a placeholder like “dark matter”, they’re all over that as if it’s cheating.

The other neat trick is confusing possibility with probability. Scientists will admit the possibility of something unknown to any theory, something that the methods of science can’t explain. They will also have ways to demonstrate the extremely low probability that such a thing exists. Theists will wave their hands and obfuscate at that point, reassuring their believers that their god is safe from science.