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The '''Horror of a unique position'''<ref name="Observational Approach"/> is expression for embarrassment of [[naturalistic]] theorists who fear that our place, that is [[planet]] Earth, [[Solar system]] or [[Milky Way]] [[galaxy]] could be extraordinary in the [[universe]]<ref name="Feynman">{{cite book |title=Feynman Lectures on Gravitation |author=Richard Phillips Feynman et al. |publisher=Westview Press |year=2002 |pages=166 |isbn=978-0813-340388 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jL9reHGIcMgC&dq=Feynman+lectures+on+gravitation&source=bl&ots=_nuGcNOn2_&sig=VyTgUmNcfeCOiwisdwoTEgKK9og&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gaYyUMHwIcfP4QTm5YD4Ag&redir_esc=y|quote=I suspect that the assumption of uniformity of the universe reflects a prejudice born of a sequence of overthrows of geocentric ideas...It would be embarrassing to find, after stating that we live in an ordinary planet about an ordinary star in an ordinary galaxy, that our place in the universe is extraordinary...to avoid embarrassment we cling to the hypothesis of uniformity}}</ref>. They do not like the idea that we might be at or near the center of the universe because that would suggest that we are in a special or privileged position, perhaps put here on purpose by the Creator.<ref name="DismantlingBB">{{cite book|author=Alex Williams, John Hartnett|title=Dismantling the Big Bang|publisher=Master Books|location=Green Forest, AR, USA|year=2005|pages=132|isbn=978-0-89051-437-5 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FR7basoxkSwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hartnett+dismantling+the+big+bang&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JvNwT_6nJJOP4gTP6fG_Ag&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hartnett%20dismantling%20the%20big%20bang&f=false}}</ref> They believe their commitment to so called ''absolute materialism'' as pseudo-religious dogma "''cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door''" thus they think to be in need to be willing to:

The '''Horror of a unique position'''<ref name="Observational Approach"/> is expression for embarrassment of [[naturalistic]] theorists who fear that our place, that is [[planet]] Earth, [[Solar system]] or [[Milky Way]] [[galaxy]], could be extraordinary in the [[universe]]<ref name="Feynman">{{cite book |title=Feynman Lectures on Gravitation |author=Richard Phillips Feynman et al. |publisher=Westview Press |year=2002 |pages=166 |isbn=978-0813-340388 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jL9reHGIcMgC&dq=Feynman+lectures+on+gravitation&source=bl&ots=_nuGcNOn2_&sig=VyTgUmNcfeCOiwisdwoTEgKK9og&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gaYyUMHwIcfP4QTm5YD4Ag&redir_esc=y|quote=I suspect that the assumption of uniformity of the universe reflects a prejudice born of a sequence of overthrows of geocentric ideas...It would be embarrassing to find, after stating that we live in an ordinary planet about an ordinary star in an ordinary galaxy, that our place in the universe is extraordinary...to avoid embarrassment we cling to the hypothesis of uniformity}}</ref>. They do not like the idea that we might be at or near the center of the universe because that would suggest that we are in a special or privileged position, perhaps put here on purpose by the Creator.<ref name="DismantlingBB">{{cite book|author=Alex Williams, John Hartnett|title=Dismantling the Big Bang|publisher=Master Books|location=Green Forest, AR, USA|year=2005|pages=132|isbn=978-0-89051-437-5 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FR7basoxkSwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hartnett+dismantling+the+big+bang&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JvNwT_6nJJOP4gTP6fG_Ag&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hartnett%20dismantling%20the%20big%20bang&f=false}}</ref> They believe their commitment to so called ''absolute materialism'' as pseudo-religious dogma "''cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door''" thus they think to be in need to be willing to<ref>{{cite web |author=Richard Lewontin |title=Billions and billions of demons (review of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, 1997) |publisher=originally in 'The New York Review' | pages= 31 |date= January 9, 1997

|url=http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/nave-html/faithpathh/lewontin.html|acessdate=August 1, 2013|quote="Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."}}</ref>:

*accept scientific claims that are against common sense,  

*accept scientific claims that are against common sense,  

*take constructs marked with patent absurdity,   

*take constructs marked with patent absurdity,   

*tolerate unsubstantiated [[Logic of possibility|just-so stories]]

*tolerate unsubstantiated [[Logic of possibility|just-so stories]]

*adhere to set of concepts that produce counter-intuitive material explanations and mystifying to the uninitiated<ref>{{cite web |author=Richard Lewontin |title=Billions and billions of demons (review of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, 1997) publisher=originally in 'The New York Review' | pages= 31 |date= January 9, 1997

*adhere to set of concepts that produce counter-intuitive material explanations and mystifying to the uninitiated.

|url=http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/nave-html/faithpathh/lewontin.html|acessdate=August 1, 2013|quote="Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."}}</ref>

Horror of a privileged position leads to prejudice, violation of the [[Socratic principle]], damning the alternatives, and clinging to the biased a priori assumptions such as those of ''uniformity'' and ''homogeneity'' of the universe. Consequently, atheistic cosmologists assert that ''"there must be no favoured location in the universe, no centre, no boundary; all must see the universe alike"''. In order to ensure this situation, they postulate spatial isotropy and spatial homogeneity, which is way of stating that the universe must be pretty much alike everywhere and in all directions. In their reasoning, they use [[circular argument]] hence claim that a favoured position is intolerable because it represents a discrepancy with the theory that postulates homogeneity. Then, in order to restore homogeneity, and "to escape the horror of a unique position", the departures from uniformity, which are introduced by the recession factors, must be from their perspective compensated by the second term in the Einstein's field equations representing effects of [[spatial curvature]].  

Horror of a privileged position leads to prejudice, violation of the [[Socratic principle]], damning the alternatives, and clinging to the biased a priori assumptions such as those of ''uniformity'' and ''homogeneity'' of the universe. Consequently, atheistic cosmologists assert that ''"there must be no favoured location in the universe, no centre, no boundary; all must see the universe alike"''. In order to ensure this situation, they postulate spatial isotropy and spatial homogeneity, which is way of stating that the universe must be pretty much alike everywhere and in all directions. In their reasoning, they use [[circular argument]] hence claim that a favoured position is intolerable because it represents a discrepancy with the theory that postulates homogeneity. Then, in order to restore homogeneity, and "to escape the horror of a unique position", the departures from uniformity, which are introduced by the recession factors, must be from their perspective compensated by the second term in the Einstein's field equations representing effects of [[spatial curvature]]. The kinds of universes that would be compatible with these principles are belonging to the set of so called [[Relativistic cosmology|relativistic cosmological models]]<ref name="Observational Approach">{{cite web

The kinds of universes that would be compatible with these principles are belonging to the set of so called [[Relativistic cosmology|relativistic cosmological models]]<ref name="Observational Approach">{{cite web

|title=The Observational Approach to Cosmology

|title=The Observational Approach to Cosmology

|author=Edwin Hubble

|author=Edwin Hubble