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This is the god-of-the-gaps argument, plain and simple. God is a way of answering ?'s that mankind currently doesn't know the answer to. You can use the templat
by bartonfink 16y ago
This is the god-of-the-gaps argument, plain and simple. God is a way of answering ?'s that mankind currently doesn't know the answer to. You can use the template below and fill in whatever natural phenomenon you want (lightning, seasons, RNA) and the argument will remain identical.
Look! It's $PHENOMENON! There's something in nature that we can't explain! Learned men of science disagree on where $PHENOMENON came from and can't offer any answers! That must mean that science is a complete waste of time. The only rational explanation is that "God did it. God created $PHENOMENON."
There's nothing reasonable about this. In fact, the odds are that this argument has been used with that phenomenon to "prove" that God must exist. The leap from "we don't know where life came from, but it definitely exists in complex form" to "God MUST exist. There can be no other explanation." is closer to offensive than reasonable, and it's CERTAINLY not a novel point.