(June 11, 2015 at 7:26 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 11, 2015 at 6:33 pm)abaris Wrote: You're constantly arguing the god of the gaps argument without even knowing it. It's as old as humanity and therefore fails to impress. In the olden days, folks looked up to the sky and saw the sun. They didn't know what it was and so the called it a god. They saw the moon and didn't know what it was and called it a god. They saw lightning and didn't know what it was, so it had to be an enraged god.
Today we know a whole lot more. The fact that we don't know everything doesn't mean there's a god required. It only means, we don't know - yet.
I'm familiar with the "god-of-the-gaps" objection, and since you guys have "done it all before", I'm sure you're equally familiar with the "science-of-the-gaps" fallacy.
Interestingly, though, just a few posts earlier, JennyA. opined that there are questions which science will never answer.
But that doesn't seem to stop some from assuming that or behaving as if it will eventually.
They've simply placed their faith in a different god.
Yes, there probably are questions science will never answer, like what was there before the big bang. But that doesn't make god or any other answer more probable. Nor is not assuming magic or god, assuming science will eventually answer all questions.
So what is this science of the gaps fallacy? Is we don't know a fallacy? I we hope to learn more a fallacy?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.