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In reply to the discussion: Bruce Willis [View all]

Farmer-Rick

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5. Just because it is not known
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 08:24 AM
Mar 2024

Doesn't mean a god did it.

This is a common logical fallacy. The fallacy is called, "god of the gaps". As the human race learns more and more of how the universe works, any part of what we don't know is attributed to a god. The gaps in our knowledge are filled with a magical god creator.

Before Newton, god was credited with creating and causing gravity though they didn't call it that. Before Darwin, god was credited for the full and complete creation of humans. Before the germ theory, god, or the devil, made you sick because you were bad. Today, even Catholic Jesuit Priests believe in evolution and germs.

By putting in a god where our human understanding ends, we add nothing to our foundation of knowledge. If medicine had stopped before the germ theory, and just credited a god, then most of our medical knowledge would have been useless. Leeches and blood letting are not cures.

And putting god into where our knowledge ends, takes away the incentive and motivation to expand our knowledge. Well, if god did it, that's it. No need to research and study it anymore. God did his magical thing and human kind can just ignore all the contradictions and inconsistencies of the real world.

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Bruce Willis [View all] ItsjustMe Mar 2024 OP
Cool? claudette Mar 2024 #1
Just because it is not known Farmer-Rick Mar 2024 #5
I also mentioned claudette Mar 2024 #6
Yeah, there's no evidence of a designer either Farmer-Rick Mar 2024 #7
The evidence to claudette Mar 2024 #8
Again you are arguing the god of the gaps Farmer-Rick Mar 2024 #10
Religion has yet to explain how God came to be, so there is that. nt Gore1FL Mar 2024 #11
Produce proof of god. SergeStorms Mar 2024 #13
Where did the "intelligent designer" come from? czarjak Mar 2024 #14
Absolutely agree with that sentiment! Bayard Mar 2024 #2
When did he say that? Timing is everything RainCaster Mar 2024 #3
From an interview in the July 1998 issue of George magazine ItsjustMe Mar 2024 #4
Long before he claudette Mar 2024 #9
What spirit? What blessing? Farmer-Rick Mar 2024 #12
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