RE: Why disbelievers believe? They believe in so called “God of the gaps”.
August 23, 2016 at 11:23 am
(August 23, 2016 at 11:21 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:(August 23, 2016 at 10:51 am)abaris Wrote: We won't see all of them being filled in our lifetime. And our distant decendants won't see them filled. We know more than the cavemen looking up at the sky and calling sun and moon gods, but there's still a plethora of things we don't know and won't know for a long time to come. I doubt there will ever be an age of absolute knowledge.
But that's OK. We still don't need gods as fillers for something we don't know as of yet. The argument isn't silly at all, because the ones seeing god behind every dark corner are basically still cavemen. On a higher level maybe, but still desperately in need of having a supernatural explanation for the unexplained.
No, we'll never see them all fill in. Science will never give us all the answers, in fact we probably only have a tiny tiny tiny percentage of the total knowledge available. That isn't a good reason to believe in God though. If people have believed that God caused A, B and C, then we find a natural explanation for A and B, it seems unlikely that God will be responsible for C. It's silly. It's just the modern equivalent of those cavemen trying to explain the world around them and failing to do so correctly.
If the universe never died, humans could have learned everything generally overtime.
