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    It is not the case that If our epistemic position regarding divine motivations is analogous to a child's regarding a surgeon's reasons, then assigning equal priors to possible divine reasons commits a base-rate error rooted in anthropocentric bias.

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    • 1.The child-surgeon analogy proves too much: if we cannot access divine reasoning, we cannot identify our bias, making the charge self-defeating.
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    • 2.Equal priors on unknown possibilities is epistemically justified in the absence of information; rejecting them requires evidence about divine motivation distribution.
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    • 3.Anthropocentric bias is unavoidable for human reasoners; accusing equal priors of bias without proposing justified alternatives merely restates the problem.
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    • 1.Children systematically misestimate adult reasoning due to cognitive limitations; humans may similarly misestimate divine reasoning given our finitude.
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    • 2.Assigning equal priors assumes divine reasons distribute like human reasons; absent evidence of equivalence, this reflects anthropocentric projection.
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    • 3.Base-rate neglect occurs when prior probabilities are ignored; treating unknown divine motivations with uniform priors violates rational updating principles.
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