RE: An unorthodox belief in God.
June 6, 2014 at 10:01 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2014 at 10:04 am by ThePinsir.)
"God of the Gaps" is what you're doing. You take a phenomenon in the natural world, say lightning. For a long time people didn't know what caused it - so they thought it was caused by a god. Or a hurricane - surely only a god's wrath can provoke such a storm. Eventually science figured it out, and people no longer attribute lightning or hurricanes to gods. God is filling the GAPS in human knowledge. As science makes more and more discoveries, god is pushed further and further back into smaller and smaller gaps. Even the diversity of life, and the seeming perfection and "design" of each species, has been explained in science (by evolution), and so gods can't even take credit for that.
And it applies not only to past issues, but present ones as well. Say DNA. We don't quite yet know exactly how DNA formed (though we have some really good ideas). So creationists say it's so complicated that it can't possibly exist without a god - that's lazy. It just means we need to do the research!
And when we do unravel the mysteries of DNA, god will be pushed into yet a smaller gap. Where will he hide then? At the origins of the universe? Well we've pretty much got that covered, to.
I hope you see my point. Gaps aren't evidence, yo.
And it applies not only to past issues, but present ones as well. Say DNA. We don't quite yet know exactly how DNA formed (though we have some really good ideas). So creationists say it's so complicated that it can't possibly exist without a god - that's lazy. It just means we need to do the research!
And when we do unravel the mysteries of DNA, god will be pushed into yet a smaller gap. Where will he hide then? At the origins of the universe? Well we've pretty much got that covered, to.
I hope you see my point. Gaps aren't evidence, yo.
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I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
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