Bill, we've talked about God of the Gaps on podcasts many times and there's a good question

of the week on the topic.

Topic number 395, go to 395.

Maybe it's time for a refresher Andrew Locke defines it in his new article in the

World View Bulletin that is, ancient people didn't understand things like thunder so they

attributed it to Thor until science explained it and kicked Thor out of the gap.

Now skeptics accused theists of doing the same thing with arguments for God.

Anything to add to that definition Bill?

This accusation of a God of the Gaps usually comes in disputes between science and religion

today and the claim is that theists will use God to stop up the gaps in our scientific

knowledge.

But that as scientific knowledge expands and fills the gaps, God is progressively squeezed

out.

And so if you're accused of having or using a God of the Gaps, this is taken to be a really

lame sort of argument.

Andrew quotes Richard Carrier claiming that quote, scientists have consistently found physical

explanations for every phenomenon they had been able to thoroughly examine.

There's not a single instance on record of any fact that has been thoroughly examined

by scientists that turned out to have no identifiable physical origin end of quote.

And I wonder Bill, even if that were true, would that even harm the case for theism?

Well, before I address your question, Kevin, I just can't resist saying that this claim

by Richard Carrier is absurd on the face of it and is utterly false.

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