What is the God of The Gaps?
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- What is the God of The Gaps?
Hemant Mehta (www.friendlyath...)
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A dude that dresses all in Gap clothes.
gp5 I thought it was obvious...
Is that God?
"Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be not magic." -Tim Minchin
If one has an incantation that invokes a spell that reliably produces a desired result, would it cease to be magic? Does the word magic by necessity presuppose ignorance of the workings of the process by which the results that are achieved? In other words, is magic simply the unexplainable?
My Christian friend told me that the question wasn't whether or not God exists, but that it was whether or not you believe. I love my friend, but that is a terrible way to think.
Kate S
If you listen to my Muslim friend the way he thinks.. you will realized why Middle East back world countries.
Why not? After all, the whole point of religion *is* to believe, right? Many people have discussed at length the difference between, for example, believing something and being convinced by it. It's why a lot of the time you won't see Christians using supposed evidence to back their argument. All people want is for you to acknowledge their beliefs as tangible. It makes sense to them, otherwise they wouldn't believe in it. Religion is not manipulation.
Even in science... in order to KNOW that something exists in the physical world, we have to understand the space between consciousness and what is around us. The "whether or not you believe" part is based in if we have the mental (or "spiritual") capacity to TRUST that what we experience outside of the body is, and will always be 100% real. THAT to me is the idea of belief or faith... just KNOWING that the things that make up our reality, are really what makes up our reality. We don't know WHY atoms and particles operate the way that they do. We can use particle accelerators to discover the Higgs Boson, and never fully understand the function of it... but we also have to TRUST (or have "faith") that what we discovered, is something and plays a role in what we deem as reality.
Believing and thinking describe two very different phenomena.
Believing is when one has come to accept the veracity of an idea, and thinking is suspended on that topic.
Thinking is when one examines ideas and a final conclusion has not yet been reached.
Belief can be a result of thinking, but does not require it. It only requires acceptance.
Everyone carries beliefs that are the product of both acceptance and thinking.
Religion: I don't know therefore God
Scientists: I don't know so lets find out
Truer words have never been spoken
@@josephstalin3120 Agreed
I don't know how microwaves work. It must be god.
So, R2-D2 could really be God? Seems to follow...
Horatio Trismegistus
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tigerandbuddy Yes, it's amazing, I know.
I'm as excited as you are!
tiger,, tell me you know the forces that are in principle when you turn the handle on your kitchen sink? same stupid thought as saying,, what you said..
strawman much.
I believe in God. I also believe in science and all its wonderful discoveries. Some of my favorite classes in college have been my biology classes. However, when I learn about something new that I didn't understand or some new discovery in science I do not discredit God. These new discoveries just show me even more so how creative God is and how amazing he is.
I'd rather use the "Simpsons of the Gaps" argument. Then I could say "Simpsons Did It" whenever I don't have an answer for something.
Family Guy of the gaps and King of the Hill of the gaps also work well in stuffing those gaps.
Proof by analogy is fraud. The fundamental problem with atheist logic is: if matter is dead how can a living mind come from it? It is much more simple,elegant and logic that mind create mind (especially since the observer effect in quantum mechanics already points out that nothing is real here). If you explain me why Simpson should be the source of all other minds (aka the creator of the biggest mystery of our universe) I am willing to consider him to be the solution of all other unsolved mysteries in this universe too 😊
I would rather have 1000 questions I cannot answer than one answer I cannot question
Wait, we don't know how the human brain works? Well, God dun diddit.
I don't understand how lightning works, therefore I know how lightning works: Zeus uses magic to create lightning. How else do you explain lightning?
I don't know, therefore I know. God of the gaps is just a argument from ignorance fallacy.
I am never disappointed by these videos
My whole life i am forced by someone to follow their type of religion.
You have free will. JESUS CHRIST is not religion. HE is perfect.
Cat is still watching with me. We've been watching for a good hour or so. Every now and then she looks up at me and I look at her. It's almost like an understanding between the two of us, cat and girl, and we just know. This stuff is really cool.
"God" will always be an answer (untill the truth is found).But it will never - ever - be better than "I Don't know!".
"Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that." Bill O'Rielly
Well it was always the "go-to" answer. Even for psychological problems they put those religious shenanigans like exorcism and demons. Ex: someone is angry and/or exhibits extreme behavior, so they are possesed by a demon/satan/whatever. That's a very weak answer to understanding reality, and in some cases it even led to death(s).
Well I don't mean to complain, but it's not gravity that holds planets in orbit. Is actually something called plasma. The gravity for the sun to hold the Earth in orbit would be so massive it would pull Mercury and Venus into the sun so that would make sense
It's generalized and oversimplified "explanation" of how religious people think. There are some religious people who also scientifically curious and want to know how GOD works things out. To understand, learn the mechanism of the nature is not the same as rejecting GOD.
new breed of scientist today are basically atheist. Theist Scientist are shrinking in numbers
God is so broad definition and scripture about him always contradict itself like thou shall not kill and fee pages later he is saying stone homosexuals to death
This "god of the gaps" silliness is one reason why I can't take these beliefs seriously.
They look for gaps in human knowledge and understanding, then declare that god fills the gap (apparently unaware of the harm they're doing to their side of the discussion), yet when I ask them to give an account for god (how/why it exist, how/why does it have the abilities it has, ect.), I get responses that clearly show that they've never thought to ask these questions and they don't care to find out.
I am not an atheist but it is interesting to listening to stuff like this :D
I prefer a "Me of the gaps" approach because then I get to be the answer for the unkown, making me the ultimate mystery. *spooky music*
before 4000 years when people see the lighting, they would say it is the god who does it, like seus.
Thanks man now i definitely believe in GOD!
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Jesus Christ
When somoene that is on trial for a criminal activity, has gaps on his story when accounting the events that took place, then that person is guilty, but in the case of the bible and god, that means that it is a LIE!
Now do you get it?
What the many gaping gaps in the Bible stories mean -- along with contradictions, anachronisms, absurdities, myths presented as "history" and thoroughly refuted by science -- is that the book is not the perfect divine word of some "God" but highly imperfect writings of human origin.
knowledge is infinite so the idea of God will never go away
I was going to comment that viewing this video should be required before anyone is allowed to comment on your posts, thinking that any person with even an ounce of rationality and honesty would concede that what you are saying is true. But... then I read the comments. Nope. Didn't help. I now have no idea what it would take for some people to question their beliefs.
"God is an infinitely shrinking pocket of scientific ignorance." -Neil deGrasse Tyson
Omg. I did not know that Neil is so bad in math. Because an „infinitely shrinking“ thing - a bit like Xenox Paradox - would shrink the gap of knowledge forever but never close it…
So... 'What do I mean when by God?'
By God I mean exactly what the term implies. To understand this it's important to understand the words used to describe it.
God is a being. That is not a human being or anything with the quality of a human, but a supreme person. The ruler of all things. Power over every thing. It is quite simple. God... is. End of sentence. Exodus 3:14, "I am that I am."
Amen
As a Christian (not hardcore at all) the belief in gods existence exists mostly for comfort or a “tool” that I can use to be a better human being, not necessarily to understand why the universe is the way it is. And for the record I respect everyone’s belief whether you believe in one god or several, or even none at all. And feel free to think that I’m stupid or nonchalant.
You are a "Christian" - not hardcore at all. What do you mean? Do you read the scriptures? Are you saved? Are you born again?
i love the work you do. so thanks, keep it up
Who says god and anything else are exclusive? It doesn’t say anywhere in the Bible that creation and evolution are in conflict. If a builder creates a house, it didn’t happen in a blink or by waving a wand. And it doesn’t stop being created once the homeowner takes the keys.
Please do refrain from ridiculing people of faith. We don't believe in God because we can't explain stuff like how planets orbit their respective stars. Rather because that very explanation needs an explanation of its own. gravity isn't the end of the answer. You will have to keep on finding reasons for the reasons you find until you find out that there has to be a causeless cause in order for the phenomenon to appear. That causeless cause is God.
"I do not understand it so it must be god".
It really makes no sense to me that people will make up all kinds of
special rules for their god, and then think that those special rules
must be true and there is no other explanation possible.
If a god created the universe, then that god has to be vastly more
complex than the entire universe. You have to just accept without
questioning that something far more complex than the entire universe has
somehow always existed. You have to just accept without questioning
that this complex being decided at some random point to create
everything. You have to just accept without questioning that this
complex being exists not on a realm that we can see, hear, or touch, but
instead in some realm that has no evidence of existence at all. You
have to just accept without questioning that this complex being existing
on another realm can somehow interact with our realm.
It is amazing to me that people can accept all those truly incredible
beliefs instead of just admitting to themselves, "I don't know, but it
is a topic worthy of research".
Understanding how something works doesn't eliminate God
Maybe not but it sure as fuck doesn't verify it.
James Melna basically said deny science that works and replace science with God. Religion can be the only explanation. That means that all religions and all opinions are right no matter if it works or not.
What is the god of the gaps?
Yukari Yakumo.
Fuck yes.
...She's also the god of ludicrously difficult boss fights. At least a hundred times harder than Flandre, Moriya and Ran.
ApocalypticSalad Sometimes I think that ZUN just made the phantasm stage as a joke, though it's still only as difficult as the extra on any other touhou game besides impersihable night which was EASY. Really, IN should have gotten a phantasm stage too.
It would be more like "If you are in your room, is your room connected to your house? Is your house part of your neighborhood? Is your neighborhood part of your town/city? etc.." Everything in the universe IS the universe. /watch?v=r6w2M50_Xdk
Funnily, the one said ppl put the God on every sains gap, has took their place by saying : now the gap filled so God must run away. They stand on same ground named "nature"... it just like "i will count the stars for you by counting the sand on the beach"
Eventually, God will become so minuscule, that Christians will lose the point in God really easily. That is if they accept science.
It's interesting that this was posted in 2013 and that it has 429 comments and that today is August 27, 2020. AND the last comments were 2-6 yrs ago. It seems atheism isn't very popular.
Good Job! You summed up 2 or 3,000 years of questions in a good 3 and a half minutes. I have thought that way forever, now somebody put it "on paper"
The god of the gaps argument is the main reason why deities and gods were created in the very first place. I don't blame people 1000's of years ago for asserting that god caused things to work; but in a time where we are explaining, proving and discovering the answers to how things work, it is lazy and slightly irrational to still use the god of the gaps argument. In the last 200 years, science has unravelled some of the most mind boggling questions, but yet people still use god as an answer...
God of the Gaps is how racism is explained. "Well there are lots of poor black people, so therefore it must be racism, and not making poor life choices"
Arthur C. Clarke said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Magic is illusion - trickery. So much for Arthur C. Clarke.
because science is discovering how things work, doesn't mean science has created it, not does it negate a CREATOR. I personally do not like organized religion and their myths.
One thing not mentioned is that if you religious people want claim god did it just ask them "Why are none of our natural explanations taken as fact?" .... "No evidence!" .... "Right! So where is the evidence god did it?"
If something is the truth (whatever the truth is) then the truth verifies itself. For example, plants grow, this is the truth (if I'm not right then tell me). So, if the idea that plants grow is the truth, then to verify that it is the truth, what should I do? Obviously, I'd go observe a plant, if it grows, then I now know it's the truth, because the very fact that the plant was growing, verifies the fact that it is growing. The plant justified itself because it was the truth; plants grow.
But thats not a theory, a theory is the best explination that has been proven true.
scientists say "i dont know, but here is a hypothesis, lets try it out"
religion says "god, now shut up, stop asking questions, and go pray"
Over human history, think of how many times a person attributed something supernatural to solve a mystery. How many of those mysteries have turned out to have perfectly natural causes. I mean literally, the score is like:
Supernatural phenomena (god): 0
Naturalistic explantions: 100 Billion
With a track record like that, you would think people would stop asserting god/supernatural explanations. But amazingly, they keep trying it!
Deism and theistic naturalism may have their own internal logic. In that sense they can seem to be rational beliefs. The problem here is they are based on presumptions that, at their core, when examined closely, are found to be only speculative in nature and based on human emotional needs, rather than empirical evidence.
eg. "The universe has purpose and meaning"
evolutionary adaptations we:
- fear death
- crave a feeling of self worth
- seek patterns in nature
- assume agency everywhere
I may sound irrelevant, but I as a christian don't immediately accuse God of doing something that I can explain. There are things I've come to understand that really hurt creationism; there are very strong arguments against God's existence. On the other hand, there are many things that I've studied and thought about that strongly suggest the existence of creation by a higher power. I think that every person reaches a tipping point where evidence has been piled higher on either side. This is why those who have seriously considered their sides, who believe to have more evidence piled onto their side, have very stubborn minds. I was stubborn to religion for a long time, but more and more evidence was presented to me that made me truly want to believe. Part of changing someone's mind is taking away all of that evidence that they have built a foundation on. What we have learned shapes us. This being said, I do believe that it is possible for anyone's consideration to be changed. I have seen Christians converted into atheism, and vice versa.
Believing in a god is one thing, but christianity is a huge leap from a god. Modern science can disprove many things in the bible, so to say christianity is right is a step in the wrong direction. While I am atheist, I completely respect your belief in a higher power. Right now, that statement is scientifically sound and holds no moral or ethical concerns. You seem like a really logical person, so i'll give you this: God cannot be proven nor disproven through any realm of practical science or thought. Christianity, however, has many inconsistencies and false statements. I hope you have a good day, David.
Sucks that you can't post video responses. I made one for this before I realised. Still, love your work.
Yes, I didn't think you'd understand anything I said. And I guessed your response would be just as much, showing that you would both miss my point and fail to understand me. But how could you do otherwise? The one who asks the surrogate question seldom realises he is asking it.
"How could I accept it if you don't tell me what it is?" That is fair enough for you & I will tell you. But like I said, ask a specific question so I can make sure that there is mutual understanding upon the matter first.
@ The Atheist Voice
Finding a natural way something works doesn't remove God from the picture because God created the natural way that something works.
Daniel Blair and then do you have proof of that? And what was mentioned is that people don’t understand something, they would think it is God. Providing no explanation or evidence to their claims.
A lot of people unknowingly describe a gigantic philosophical topic, that science can only explain how something works and not why... For example, saying that fire is the result of an exothermic reaction by which something burns in oxygen and produces light and heat... But science doesn't explain why that is so... Why does fire not simply provide light. Why is it the way it is? This I think is the only real place in which a deity, not necessarily the Christian god can fit. My counter-argument to this is I think it's entirely arbitrary really. Fire burns because it burns. We evolved because we evolved. These kind of things happened because they needed to happen. If we didn't evolve some other species simply would have. If fire didn't burn, something else simply would have. If the big bang didn't happen, some other event would have just happened eventually because of the monkey with a typewriter allegory, leave him for an infinite amount of time and he'll eventually accidentally write a novel. I dunno, it's an interesting thought.
It's called begging the question. In this case asking for a purpose where there might not be one.
Though simply making an argument that whatever is here is just here isn't much of an argument at all. It can even be considered a fallacy of irrelevant thesis in some cases.
To know how something works does not reduce divinity. If we found a UFO in the desert and didn't know how it worked then after years we figured it out it doesn't dismiss or reduce the intelligence that went into the craft.
It's not about how it works, it is about where it came from
Why can't the natural and scientific mechanics be a method of how God made certain things work? For example, Person A sees a painting on the floor. He came up with the conclusion that an artist must've painted it without understanding how the artist did it. Person B soon found out that "Oh, the painting came from a brush and colour pallets." It doesn't mean that Person B should reject an artist made the painting, rather, the artist made it through the mechanics of a painting brush. Anyone can counter this argument? Looking forward to some responses.
Looking at a painting on a floor and logically concluding a human being made it is not analogous to someone looking at unexplained phenomena and saying a "god" did it.
If I actually believed that there was a supernatural entity with the ability to create a universe ex nihilo, with the sheer force of his willpower. I would have so many questions, but the people who claim to have direct access to this god seem the least interested in investigating these things, they may even become hostile to what should be simple questions (if this god stuff was actually true)
What you mean is, "Until I can prove to YOU that He exsists then I have no basis according to YOU."
Even if I play your game I'm not sure there would be much point because you already refuse God, & because you refuse Him your mind will go to any length to reason that He can't possibly exsist, which means you are therefore not refusing him. So when the matter comes up it becomes a question of whether or not he exsists and that my friend is a surrogate question though I'm sure you don't know why.
Remember before the encode project it was trendy to talk about junk DNA? Since no function was known for the non-protein coding regions, it was assumed that it was leftover garbage from the evolutionary process. Then when it was discovered that those regions really did have purpose, the "evolution did it" argument shrank even further. The more we know, the less gaps there are to wedge evolution into.
Gap is not shrinking. We know a lot when science progesses and a lot more questions are generated.
If you know the processes/scientific explanation why the water inside a kettle boils, does that disprove that there was a man who wanted to have a hot cup of coffee?
*Why the water inside the kettle is boiling:
Explanation 1: Heat transfers from the stove to the kettle to the water and so on.
Explanation 2: I want to have a hot cup of coffee.
Explanation 1 does not disprove Explanation 2. What's your argument again?
What a poor analogy. We can easily understand that a human being filled a kettle, set it on a stove burner, and turned on the heat. The person's fingerprints might even be on the kettle, cup, can of coffee, spoons, etc. But there is absolutely no proof of any of the many "gods" in human myths. These unproven "beings" may symbolize powerful ancestors or their "spirits", wishful thinking, a ruler of an ancient high civilization that visited more primitive people, a ruling class's propaganda to frighten people into submission and keep them that way, or all of those.
but why is he outside of the loop because we say so? as for gravity the current theory it is a leak from another dimension
Fair point and God shouldn't be used just to explain things. Although it doesn't disprove God.
Just because science explain how something works does not disprove God, it may disprove religion but not God
Something Good depends on what God you are talking about. Because a simple paradox can disprove a certain God. No, science can’t disprove that there is a God, because there is no proof of one.
They are satisfactory answers for some people , , , if they have no other explanation and can't live with uncertainty. It is more honest to admit that we just don't know than to speculate that "God" or "the Universal Spirit" or "the Ground of all Being" is responsible and claim certain knowledge on this basis. And then make important life choices that impact others and society at large. The abandonment of intellectual integrity is a form of lying to oneself. Not really healthy.
Great video!
Pray tell how I gave this impression? I do believe there is a mighty God who created everything , only thing is I don't attribute the natural phenomena to him directly.
The reason you don't care to talk is because you don't care to understand. If you're going to have a disscussion it's important to talk with them in understanding, not at them in assumptions and an unwillingness to understand. I didn't straight up tell you why I believe because I need a more specific seeking question than that. If I answered 'why', you would be making assumptions the whole time of 'what'. But it's important for you to understand 'what' I believe before you understand 'why'.
They go the other way too. If it's something that's unfamiliar or somewhat weird they always say "It's demonic" because they just don't get it and can't explain it
AKA: The Argument from ignorance or argumentum ad ignorantiam.
If there were no God, there would be no gaps because there would be nothing at all.
if I know how tables are made that doesnt mean that it came from nothing or no one created it
Im not religious but even if science figured it out wouldn’t it be ok to say that god didn’t explain to them in depth how it works but just that he did it and all science figured out was how god made it work ?
Remember that god people used to worship everyday and believed nothing else? What was his name... Ah! Yes, it was Zeus. I wonder what happen to him...
Glad to hear you are a friendly atheist Hemant. I'm not one but there are different categories of atheist just like there are different categories of Christians, etc. (I'm not an orthodox Christian either.) I admire spiritual atheist. I admire Bernie Sanders and he's one. If people like him are going to hell I'm in big trouble.
As a scientist I have to pose the following question: at what point of time has the god of the gaps idea to be considered wrong? Or in other words: how can it be falsified? Because we see a lot of random series in nature but assuming that they continue indefinitely (or in this case till all knowledge gaps have been closed) is similar to what a gambler assumes when he throw a 6 three times: that he will continue to throw sixes in the future because it worked in the past. I see no progress in the question of Abiogenesis, in a GUT, the question why the universe looks fine tuned etc. in the last 30 years. If you look how old the guys where that got the Nobel price in physics for quantum non-locality and from what time their work dates you will have an impression on how long and hard fundamental physics is stuck. And I am really tolerant against atheist normally because I know atheism is often connected to depression. But the proliferation of non-falsifiable concepts like the multiverse theory or a god of the gap’s hypothesis without time limit by atheists is making me angry. Non the least because this sloppy thinking has real world implications (people who fear death more or believe in determinism act more selfish, that has been proven by statistics).
You are either a liar or an idiot. Perhaps both.
"Atheism is often connected to depression" is such a bogus argument. First, countries with the most atheist populations like Denmark, Finland, Iceland or Sweden have the biggest happiness rates, so what you say is clearly untrue as a causation.
But think with me for a second, why being open about being an atheist could lead to depression? Maybe because people outcast you for this idea. They think you're wicked, that you'll burn and a lot of the times they will stop contacting you. Losing your social connections is obviously the leading cause of depression in this case, not the non-belief itself
"What we understand is that he created it"
- whoa, wait a minute. How did you confirm this?
"we are simply delving deeper and deeper into our understaning of how he created it to work."
- Until you prove your god exist AND that it created DNA, you've got no basis for this statement.
God goes in the beginning of the universe
"...explaining what you mean by "god"..." Thats more like the kind of question I want to read before I try and answer, so I KNOW what you're asking, not what I THINK you're asking. Since I can see that your tether is very short, with more intent to talk at people rather than discuss it with them, I'll answer this one first. & by the way, I'm not blaming you for the conversation going nowhere. I'm explaining how it needs to work. It'll go no where if we don't try to understand eachother. Got it?
These arguments can be made without the copious smugness.
"Justify my claims FOR YOU, otherwise it just looks like a whole lot of garb TO YOU."
Anyway what i see it as is two people coming from different places & from different angles with one trying to discuss things in the way of the other. That's what I mean when I say I will play your game. Though neither of us can assume where the other is coming from, that's why we need at least some form of understanding. That's why you must ask a question that comes FROM YOU & not from one of my assumptions.
Sheesh, this shirt is comfy. God made it.
I personally believe that God is a force of nature, am I stupid for thinking that?
Reiteration: I don't know, Therefor Thor!
lol
I understand what most are saying about god, I am an Atheist, Real question here is putting beliefs aside for the moment, Can you prove god exist physically and logically? Something can't just be, If you can't prove it then what is the real point, I used to believe in Santa Clause, what makes God any different than Santa Clause?
god once lived on mount Olympus .......... then we climbed it
It might be beating a dead horse, what ever science proves/disproves to reduce the god gap, the religious community will just say, oh well god did that too. Since theres no way to really prove/disprove god; that is what they'll use as their last and final argument. Will science ever prevail?
if someone says god...
'so you don't know ah?'
that will make them angry
Religions may be wrong but you still can't possibly prove that there is no creator. This creator probably does not necessarily require us to worship or anything. It just made us and its definitely really powerful. Even so be be a good person everyone still
Yep and u can't prove unicorns dont exist
You can’t prove that my claim of a flying wizard that grants your wish if you see him doesn’t exist
@@mishipla7268 u also can't prove that i don't have a own planet millions of light years away out of our milkeyway (:
It is a joke, man... Everyone knows why the planets are actually round. I used the flying spaghtti monster and something that anyone should know by reading any science book to proove your point.
This is true, but not the point. God isn't the explanation just because we don't understand something. What we understand is that he created it and it is what it is whether we understand how it works or not. When we gain a greater understanding of, for example, how DNA actually works, we're not gaining a greater understanding of how God isn't actually behind how children look like their parents, we are simply delving deeper and deeper into our understaning of how he created it to work.
I KNOW THE CREATOR IS REAL..HOWEVER HE IS MOSTLY RIGHT ABOUT HOW PEOPLE JUST BELIEVE !!!
But come, I will play your game anyway and we shall see where this leads. However, because this is more complicated for you then I assume you probably realise, I must ask for a very specific question to begin with. I could assume your question and answer it straight away but it needs to come from you and your understanding. When you ask a question, I may refine it in order to make it more specific so that I am sure it is understood both ways.
what if god made the natural reason and people weren't smart enough to realize beforehand
What if there were actual proof that a "god" existed at all, let alone proof that it "made the natural reason"? You could just as well say that a gigantic fairy, unicorn, or dragon did it.
God of the gaps = I don't know, therefore God. Now I've saved about 3,5 minutes of your life, no need to thank me
Its *humour spot* lol !
*Religious people* : God..where r you??
From a small *Gap* : I'm right here!! :-D
So deism or theistic naturalism makes no sense to you guys?
Just because we as a species may not have knowledge enough, or may not be sophisticated enough to explain some natural phenomenon, doesn't mean by default that god did it. The ancient Egyptians were not sophisticated enough to explain sun rises and sensets, so they invented an idea that made sense to them. Ra must be pulling the sun across the sky in a chariot. Just because we do not have the answers to some things, or CANNOT know the answers to some things, does not mean that God did it. You're just doing the same thing that the ancient Egyptians and other cultures have done. Um...I don't know why...um...God did it. Yay, now I know and I can go about my day.
My favorite god made it; where did god come from?... Oh god was a ways just here! ?????