(June 10, 2012 at 6:47 am)Ace Otana Wrote:(June 9, 2012 at 10:24 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: The limitation that science has on explaining things is that it can't give a reason for a process happening.
Sounds like a 'god of the gaps' argument. If we don't know/understand something, jump to god did it. Which is a non-answer.
There's tons I don't know, but in no way will I just assume some god exists and that he did it. I'll just admit to not knowing something and see if I can find a way to understanding it. If I can't then I'll have to leave it as an unknown.
Humans have a terrible habit of jumping to 'goddidit' when they don't know something. I guess it's that need to fill in that gap, even if it's with something very hollow and easily breakable.
What it looks like, is the "bargaining" phase of the grieving process over the loss of his Big Wooby.
Having realized the absurdity of his Catholic Gawd, he is still clinging to this idea that there MUST be a gawd somehow, and trying to invent one and give it a minimum amount of vague enough qualities that he can circumvent all the reasonable objections to god-myths he has run up against. And yes, you nailed it: by necessity a gawd of the gaps.
But the undeniable fact remains that this gawd, just like all others before it, is a made-up fairy tale. The difference with this one is that we get to see it being made-up ourselves, and do not have to endure appeals to tradition and claims of, "how would you know this isn't true and it's just a made-up story, you weren't there! ".
