(October 7, 2016 at 6:26 am)ray3400 Wrote: If we do not know everything, then there will always be a degree of uncertainty when it comes to the existence of God.That's a God of the Gaps argument.
(Since rest of this post follows from that line of reasoning, I'll post out from that.)
If someone made the negative assertion: "god does not exist", they would be hard pressed to look everywhere to fulfill that assertion, since we don't know everything. You'd have to test the assertion "god does not exist" from every possible (and impossible) venue to prove such an assertion.
It's called "... of the Gaps" because more knowledge we uncover and more we discover, less and less place - gaps in our knowledge - will there be in our knowledge for negative assertions to hide in.
