Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach

[Jenny A]

Start with the idea that almost everything can be explained by science and human reasoning. Then, when faced with something that cannot be explained naturally after having exhausted all possibilities, ask whether something supernatural may have occurred.

Ah, the god of the gaps in all it's glory. The god that was proved by so many things that we we didn't understand but now do. . . oh wait.

The "god of the gaps" is theological reasoning which invokes divine intervention as a way to understand natural phenomena that science is presently unable to explain: Since we don't know how x happens, it is assumed that Goddidit. Of course, scientists and most rationalists would argue that naturalistic explanations for still-mysterious phenomena are always possible.[1]

The god of the gaps is one way for intelligent and scientifically literate theists to deal with the cognitive dissonance of believing in a transcendent god.

"God of the gaps" is a bad argument not only on logical grounds, but on empirical grounds: there is a long history of "gaps" being filled and the gap for God thus getting smaller and smaller, suggesting "we don't know yet" as an alternative that works better in practice.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

Bringing us once again to what's wrong with "we don't know." Because it beats the hell out of let's pretend.