Some people think any description of a natural event as miraculous should automatically be censured as “God of the gaps”. That’s just wrong. Here’s an example. The land is locked in a devastating drought and forecasts all say there will be no rain in the next two weeks. But if Farmer Brown doesn’t get rain […]
God of the gaps
Godless of the Gaps
In “God of the Gaps and Mind of the Gaps” I quoted Dan Barker writing the following in Godless: “Many of these [theistic] arguments are reduced to a ‘god of the gaps’ strategy. At most, the theists might prove the existence of a current gap in human knowledge, but this does not justify filling the gap […]
God of the Gaps and Mind of the Gaps
Dan Barker says: “Many of these [theistic] arguments are reduced to a ‘god of the gaps’ strategy. At most, the theists might prove the existence of a current gap in human knowledge, but this does not justify filling the gap with their god. After all, what happens when the gap closes someday? The gaps are […]
Scientism and Metaphysics-of-the-Gaps
In this article I am going to address the concept of “God-of-the-gaps”. Any person who spends any time reading in the theology/science literature will find that the term God-of-the-gaps is often wielded as a sort of accusation. In other words, people don’t typically accept God-of-the-gaps. Instead, they accuse others of falling into the God-of-the-gap-trap (aka […]
Robert Price and winning the debate by fiat
Robert Price reviewed God or Godless in Free Inquiry Magazine and John Loftus is over the moon about it. He emailed me and the Baker publicist yesterday to let us know. In his email he gleefully wrote: “Unfortunately [Price] doesn’t have anything good to say about Randal’s arguments saying I ‘systematically punctured’ them like one who popped […]
