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In my time active here on this site I have lost count of the number of times that I could have described posts I have read as a retreat into the God of the Gaps. Muslims, Evangelicals and Catholics alike have taken vicarious routes to counter the disonance that the human scientific endeavour brings to the question of where is the evidence for god. With claims ranging from delusionsal to desperate to pathetic time and time again we see people trying to claim the truth has always been in their particular favourite old book. This is because the theory of the God of the Gaps brings to the table that, with the exponential growth of scientific study, inevitable day where god has no place left to hide and thus still not being found must be declared a myth. So this effort by the faithful to reinterpret their ancient stories to include modern findings can be seen as the only option left open to them if they are not going to be forced into the last tiny corner.
The bunkum I hear as 'evidence' is invariably so much less than real. Rather it is appeals to credibility based on so called piousness and the flavoured writings of historical thinkers. Thinkers that lived in times that should they have declared non-belief they would, at the very least, have faced financial ruin and often death. It is only in the past 200 years or so that the weight of scientific study has become so great that thinking, educated people can present a case strong enough to mount a defence of non-belief that fascist totalitarian and absolutely self-serving religious authorities cannot counter. This revolution could only happen as the people who embarked on the exploration of objective truth were the affluent sons of the power holding class. The number of greats in the history of science that were church leaders or their children is no accident. Church has always been an institution of power and wealth and historically only the powerful and wealthy had access to education. So this claim that science has always been represented in religion whilst holding true is also highly deceptive. Science can thank religion for the first universities, and perhaps even for the scientific method, but like a child it has grown up and developed its own mind.
The truth is the gaps are shrinking but they will never disappear. The believer creates gaps, or justifications, for their belief regardless of the evidence to support them. Truth is not important to belief, indeed belief is a substitute for truth. So the theory of God of the Gaps seeing god ever reduced till he has nowhere left to hide will never see its ultimate realisation, the death of god. People choose ignorance too often for that ever to happen. The god described in the old volumes that represent the dominant faiths of the world is a near prehistoric appeal to political doctrine, a doctrine of one leader empire, not an assemblage of observational truth that god exists. There is no evidence in anything written in these volumes of social propaganda to show anything other than their design to produce compliant non-thinking obediant citizens that worship elites. This is their only purpose. There is no god in the bible, the koran or anywhere else. There are only effigies of empire. So there is no god of the gaps, for there is no god, god was only ever a proxy notion to represent power as stretching beyond mortality. God is thus nothing more than an instrument of fear.
The bunkum I hear as 'evidence' is invariably so much less than real. Rather it is appeals to credibility based on so called piousness and the flavoured writings of historical thinkers. Thinkers that lived in times that should they have declared non-belief they would, at the very least, have faced financial ruin and often death. It is only in the past 200 years or so that the weight of scientific study has become so great that thinking, educated people can present a case strong enough to mount a defence of non-belief that fascist totalitarian and absolutely self-serving religious authorities cannot counter. This revolution could only happen as the people who embarked on the exploration of objective truth were the affluent sons of the power holding class. The number of greats in the history of science that were church leaders or their children is no accident. Church has always been an institution of power and wealth and historically only the powerful and wealthy had access to education. So this claim that science has always been represented in religion whilst holding true is also highly deceptive. Science can thank religion for the first universities, and perhaps even for the scientific method, but like a child it has grown up and developed its own mind.
The truth is the gaps are shrinking but they will never disappear. The believer creates gaps, or justifications, for their belief regardless of the evidence to support them. Truth is not important to belief, indeed belief is a substitute for truth. So the theory of God of the Gaps seeing god ever reduced till he has nowhere left to hide will never see its ultimate realisation, the death of god. People choose ignorance too often for that ever to happen. The god described in the old volumes that represent the dominant faiths of the world is a near prehistoric appeal to political doctrine, a doctrine of one leader empire, not an assemblage of observational truth that god exists. There is no evidence in anything written in these volumes of social propaganda to show anything other than their design to produce compliant non-thinking obediant citizens that worship elites. This is their only purpose. There is no god in the bible, the koran or anywhere else. There are only effigies of empire. So there is no god of the gaps, for there is no god, god was only ever a proxy notion to represent power as stretching beyond mortality. God is thus nothing more than an instrument of fear.