Please explain God of the gap's?

Question

regarding the origin of the universe

Answer 1

If science doesn't have the answer, the default is God must have done it. Funny that religion doesn't need to prove anything. Interesting how that works, Eh?

Answer 2

Science's explanation for the origin of the universe, ie; the Big Bang gets as far as Planck Time beyond which spacetime collapses infinately into a singularity. Thus there is no such thing as before the big bang as there is no expanded time.
Creationists don't understand this, can't get their head around the concept of collapsed time and ask what came before the big bang. Scientifically this is nonsence so they claim that because you can't explain it to their satisfaction that God must have created the universe.
This argument revolves around the assumption that God is unknowable, therefore anything we know about isn't God.
I've seen this crop up all over the place, especially in Answers.
There is also the problem that different people have different levels of knowledge sowhen someone asks a question you see the answer "God did it!!!111!one!" and the actual answer is hopefully posted further down.
The worst example I've seen was someone asking where the names for colours came from, "God named them." just doesn't cut the mustard.

Answer 3

Right i think you are referring to the argument that because science doesn't have an explanation then god must have done it. This has been term the god of the gaps theory because it just fills in the 'gaps' in scientific theory by saying 'it was god'. The problem with this is that science didn't always know why the sun shines, or how diseases were spread, and some folks just explained these things away as acts of god. fast forward to today and a lot of the things which were mysteries are now understood, and i suppose that as human knowledge advances the current mysteries will get solved, and new ones will arise, and the cycle repeats....on and on and on....like this answer ;)

Answer 4

Because our response to 'the unknown' , whether it be how a clock works or what's in a package or why bad things happen or where we came from, etc., creates a level of anxiety in us all, we have a desire to 'fill in the gaps' in our knowledge by answering questions unanswerable in any other way with 'God'. Wow. What a sentence. Hope that made sense.
In a nutshell, to sleep better we answer our unaswered questions with "God". It has to do with fear more than faith, because the "God of the gaps" answers our questions but doesn't ask us to do anything.

Answer 5

'God of the gaps' was a term coined by Bishop John Robinson in his book, 'Honest to God '(1963).

God used to be invoked as an explanation for thunder, lightning, earthquakes and various other natural phenomena. However, as we develop our understanding of science, we don't need to use God as an explanation for (e.g.) thunder any more.

But there are still some other phenomena that we don't understand and we still appeal to God as the explanation for these things. This is the 'God of the gaps' approach: we use God to explain anything we don't understand. As we understand more, His role diminishes.

Robinson said that this approach was not a good way to understand the role and agency of God, and that we needed a fresh and honest new look at the issue.

Answer 6

I guess God just fills in the gaps for all the unknowns and the mysterious. Until we understand what is really behind them. It is a period of ignorance in which we give God the credit until we discover where the credit is really due.

Answer 7

How about a page or so of padding and a couple of drawings. That oughta do it.

Answer 8

GOD is.
GOD made it all.

GOD knows....and doesn't care if we have language and what names we say.................
...........GOD understands beyond language.
and that's called faith.