User:Glover/God

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The basics

 * List of fallacies
 * List of common misconceptions

Origins of life

 * Directed panspermia Life came from aliens / outer space !
 * Abiogenesis Life came from primordial soup !
 * faq/evolution and then evolved !
 * Evolutionary psychology of religion and then evolved religion !
 * Apophenia There must be some higher meaning to life and the universe !
 * Agent detection This can't all be random, someone must of made it !

God and creationism

 * God of the gaps is a type of theological perspective in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of God's existence.
 * Russell's teapot is an analogy to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making claims. (Invisible_Pink_Unicorn, Flying_Spaghetti_Monster)
 * Newton%27s flaming laser sword can be summarised as "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating".
 * Human vestigiality involves those characters occurring in the human species that are considered having lost all or most of their original function through evolution.
 * Occam's razor states that among competing hypotheses that predict equally well, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
 * Existence of God a fairly broad and neutral coverage

Atheism

 * Criticism of atheism Criticism of atheism is complicated by the fact that there exist multiple definitions and concepts of atheism (and little consensus among atheists)
 * Marxist–Leninist atheism Marxism–Leninism holds that religion is the opium of the people, in the sense of promoting passive acceptance of suffering on Earth in the hope of eternal reward.

Misc

 * Scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge
 * Not even wrong describes any argument that purports to be scientific but fails at some fundamental level, usually in that it contains a terminal logical fallacy
 * Biblical criticism biblical texts as having human rather than supernatural origins, it asks when and where a particular text originated; how, why, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances it was produced; what influences were at work in its production; what sources were used in its composition; and what message it was intended to convey
 * Physics beyond the Standard Model theoretical developments needed to explain the deficiencies of the Standard Model, such as the origin of mass, the strong CP problem, neutrino oscillations, matter–antimatter asymmetry, and the nature of dark matter and dark energy
 * Dragon in my garage what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all?
 * Non-overlapping magisteria science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry - fact vs. values