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- Outgroup Homogeneity Bias: 'Tendency to assume that the members of other groups are very similar to each other, particularly in contrast to the assumed diversity of the membership of one's own group.'Philosophical Concepts
- Fine Tuning argument: 'To determine that the development of the cosmological constants was unlikely, we would have to observe the constants of other universes. Unfortunately, a sample size of 1 is not enough to determine probability... There is no way to ever quantify this probability. It's a scientifically meaningless statement. They postulate a particular probability distribution from no data. Begging the Question/Circular reasoning fallacy.'Philosophical Concepts
- Argument from Change: 'Turtles all the way down. Something from potential. First cause.'Philosophical Concepts
- Evolution: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species [LINK: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species]Philosophical Concepts
- Re god and evil: 'A gratuitous evil: An instance of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse. How is this possible if god is all powerful and all loving?'Philosophical Concepts
- Objective morality from god: 'Is god good because he aligns with goodness, or is he good because he defines what good is? If the former, then good exists independent from god. If the latter, than morality is arbitrary.'Philosophical Concepts