(November 18, 2015 at 6:21 pm)Krishna Jaganath Wrote: [...] God of Gaps for me says that theists are putting God in a gap that has not been filled by science, which eventually will be filled by science, and therefore there will be a point according to the God of Gaps theory where scientists will explain everything and there is no where to put God.
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Nobody gives a crap about what "god of the gaps" means to you. What matters is what it means to people who know what they're talking about. Of course, it's not at all surprising that you'd construct straw-men, against which you can argue - that's all religious people have left, since you don't have any arguments against the actual criticism of religion.
God of the gaps means this - every time science disproves a religious claim, that claim is being retracted and replaced by others, which are not yet disprovable by science. Gods used to be perceived as physical beings, living on tops of mountains; now that we know that can't be true, since we know what's on tops of mountains - gods are no longer that. Then gods were said to live in the sky, but now that we can fly into space - wouldn't you know - they've been moved somewhere else.
When you operate in the realm of fantasy and you don't feel you need to provide evidence - you can always squeeze god somewhere.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
