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Updated 7-January-2022
John Jung Park's 2017 paper revives an old argument for atheism: errors in human moral judgment due to various psychological biases provides a reason to think God does not exist. Park's argument refers to "framing effects." Following another one of Park's papers, we may say that moral framing effects occur when
morally irrelevant differences in the way a scenario is presented affect people’s moral judgments regarding that scenario.
Here's an example (taken from Park's 2021 paper):
Save vs. Kill: Petrinovich and O’Neill (1996, Exp. 1) reported that some participants indicated that they would do one act when the act was described in terms of how many people it would save (Save condition) but would not do that act when the act was described in terms of how many people it would kill (Kill condition), even though they had been told that the act would have both effects.
