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Why disbelievers believe? They believe in so called “God of the gaps”.
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RE: Why disbelievers believe? They believe in so called “God of the gaps”.
(August 23, 2016 at 11:37 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:
(August 23, 2016 at 11:27 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: There is nothing wrong with a gap in our knowledge, and I think it is better to say I (we) don't know.  And it's not just theist who do it, but a gap epiestomology is quickly uncovered by asking the simple question of why?

You're right. There's nothing wrong with gaps in knowledge, and it's both more honest and more responsible to say "I don't know" when confronted with one of these gaps.  But that's not what happens with many theists.  You present a gap in our knowledge - the origins of the universe for example - and instead of saying "I don't know" the response you receive is "God is the reason."

God can still be the reason, and not need any magic or special pleading. But the Infinite might be too lofty a God for most to contemplate.

"What about the Man of the gaps? We don't know how the hand works, must be Man!"

Nope, the hand is flesh, blood bone and muscle, there is no Man in the hand.

"Well what about the foot?"

Nope, no Man to be found in the foot either, in fact we searched over the whole body and didn't find the Man anywhere...the entire thing is made of meat....and the meat can sing.

"Singing meat??? This is all together too much..."

Hehe


My point is; what if the laws we've discovered, that are regular and working in the universe, like electromagnetism, are working parts of God? They are unfolded from an original unity.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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RE: Why disbelievers believe? They believe in so called “God of the gaps”. - by Arkilogue - August 24, 2016 at 2:42 pm

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