RE: Who throws the dice for you?
April 17, 2014 at 8:13 am
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2014 at 8:14 am by RobbyPants.)
(April 16, 2014 at 9:27 pm)Heywood Wrote: I get tired of you claiming this a God of the Gaps argument when it is not. We do know these observations cannot be explained by local physical phenomena. There is no gap in scientific understanding that is being filled by God.
Suppose that ancient Greeks had discovered that lightening could not be the result of local physical causes. Such a finding would be evidence supporting the Zeus hypothesis. It wouldn't be proof of the existence of Zeus, but it is an observation that would be expected to be made if Zeus did indeed exist.
Certain known artifacts of our reality....not gaps in our understanding....are suggestive of the existence of God. You're just going to have to learn to live with that.
I'm confused about how this doesn't qualify. What is the difference between things that "cannot be explained (by local physical phenomena)" and "gaps in our understanding"? Is there somehow an "understanding" in things that cannot be explained? If so, what is it? If not, then it's a gap.
To say that the unexplained phenomena is "suggestive of God" sounds like you're trying to insert God into something we have yet to explain. As Ryantology already said, just because you can't explain X doesn't mean that Y suddenly become right (or more right). Y has to stand on it's own merits. How do you know its not Z? Couldn't randomness be indicative of unicorns, or something?
