Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I want to talk about atheism, or a part of atheism that I think has a fundamental

flaw.

But to understand why I need to talk about something else called the God of the Gaps

objection.

So basically it goes like this, God of the Gaps objection claims that arguments for

the existence of God, they all fail because they all essentially say the same thing.

Here's something we can't explain where here is a gap in our knowledge.

God explains the gap in our knowledge.

Therefore God exists.

In other words, you can't argue in this way.

I don't know what caused X, therefore God exists.

That's a bad argument.

Now the unexplained thing, it might be morality or the beginning of the universe or the existence

of something rather than nothing.

Whatever it is, atheists say we don't want to rush to a supernatural explanation because

we might miss an undiscovered or unknown natural explanation.

And actually a lot of Christians feel the same way.

The Lutheran pastor and Holocaust victim, Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote this.

He wrote, how wrong it is to use God as a stopgap for the incompleteness of our knowledge.

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