Objective moral facts require a divine foundation.

Define the thesis precisely as the claim that objective moral facts need a divine foundation.

Identify assumptions (existence of objective moral facts) and key terms (objective moral facts, divine foundation).

Specify evidence needed: sources linking moral facts to God and critiques of divine grounding.

Gather primary sources: SEP moral arguments entry and Wikipedia on divine command theory.

Extract relevant claims and verbatim excerpts supporting and challenging the thesis.

Evaluate reliability: Stanford Encyclopedia is scholarly; Wikipedia provides overview but less authoritative.

Construct strongest supporting argument using abductive reasoning from moral facts to God as best explanation.

Construct strongest opposing argument using inductive reasoning from secular accounts and criticisms of divine command theory.

Test logical structure: check validity of inferences and status of premises.

Compare competing explanations: abstract realism, evolutionary ethics, divine command theory.

Record unresolved issues: contested premises about explanatory superiority and existence of secular foundations.

Produce current assessment that the thesis is contested given existing evidence.