(October 31, 2013 at 11:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Until and unless theism can point to a phenomenon or group of phenomena for which no naturalistic explanation is possible, it leaves theism as an unreasonable belief.
There will always be gaps in our knowledge that theists will be able point at and proclaim god is responsible. These gaps are what theists use when they've already come to a certain conclusion but no positive evidence for their beliefs exist. For example, there is no evidence for the soul, but Christianity is entirely dependent upon its existence. So, if someone concludes that Christianity is true, they then have to use the holes in our natural understanding of the mind to support their belief.
My point is that they don't construct their beliefs from the ground up, so any gap in knowledge will be desperately clung to regardless of whether or not the Christian knows for certain that no natural explanation is possible.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
