Like most people I’ve met on atheist forums, I’m an agnostic atheist. I’m a strong atheist in respect to the mainstream Christian concept of an onmimax god; but agnostic (or weak atheist) when it comes to other gods. The word ‘god’ – as opposed to ‘God’ – is too loosely defined anyway.
As for gaps in our knowledge, if we run back time those gaps become greater and greater. Go back 2000 years and they are chasms. Our ancestors believed every phenomenon they observed was a direct act of a god. Rainbows, thunder and lightning, tides, seasons, sunrise/set, etc. We could spend the next 1000 posts offering further examples and still only scratch the surface. Those huge gaps have been greatly diminished by natural solutions. Can you think of a single example of a phenomenon once considered natural that is now known to be supernatural? Science has a 100% record in this respect, but theists still insist on filling the remaining gaps with God; and fence-sitters like the OP insist we at least allow the possibility; otherwise we are ‘cowardly’. I do allow the possibility, but it isn’t 50/50, not even remotely close.
As for gaps in our knowledge, if we run back time those gaps become greater and greater. Go back 2000 years and they are chasms. Our ancestors believed every phenomenon they observed was a direct act of a god. Rainbows, thunder and lightning, tides, seasons, sunrise/set, etc. We could spend the next 1000 posts offering further examples and still only scratch the surface. Those huge gaps have been greatly diminished by natural solutions. Can you think of a single example of a phenomenon once considered natural that is now known to be supernatural? Science has a 100% record in this respect, but theists still insist on filling the remaining gaps with God; and fence-sitters like the OP insist we at least allow the possibility; otherwise we are ‘cowardly’. I do allow the possibility, but it isn’t 50/50, not even remotely close.
