RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 14, 2015 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2015 at 12:45 pm by abaris.)
(June 14, 2015 at 12:35 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: All of this "when does coincidence become miraculous" stuff is nonsense. It's a psychological thing where people try to layer meaning on top of the meaningless. It's called Apophenia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
It's caveman style. Oh, we don't understand what we're seeing. Must be a god.
In the old days, it ranged from the sun and the moon, down to thunderstorms and fire. Today, hopefully, only hardcore idiots would argue the sun to be a god. But it's still the same procedure as usual. Only now it's astrophysics instead of lightning.
God of the gaps.