Does anyone believe this? The "God is in the Gaps" theory. This is the theory that God is so beyond our recognition that everything we dont understand is God's work?
Why do we have minds so advanced and other animals dont? God.
What is beyond our solar syatem?
God.
Is this just an easy way to explain what science can't?
2006-12-08 03:41:57 · 15 answers · asked by BoRNACiD 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Those gaps just keep getting smaller and smaller... sooner or later, they'll close up altogether and God will just get completely squeezed out of the picture altogether.
2006-12-08 03:45:24 · answer #1 · answered by XYZ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is a point of view held by people who don't realy understand science and biology.
For example, you suggest there is a big 'gap' between us and other animals. That is in fact a misconception. We CAN trace a direct line of development of the human brain from other animals. Some examples: the echolocation adaption in the brain of bats is a precursor of language, dolphins have syntactic language, and apes use tools and can be taught abstract concepts.
You can agrue that God drives nature. But, almost all of the 'gaps', as you call them, either don't exist or have been (or will be) explained by science.
2006-12-08 03:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by Wundt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our minds may be more advanced than other animals but we still only use on average 10% of our brain. I do believe that God exists in every aspect of our lives. There are so many things that science can't explain. And why is that? What is driving science forward? Humans! And if we don't utilize 100% of our brains then we will never understand everything. God does exist. Always have and always will. Open your eyes, heart, and mind and take a look everything He has created. Just stand still and feel Him in everything.
2006-12-08 03:52:03 · answer #3 · answered by Billie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it's the definition of God that is causing the argument.
is God a man-like being in a white robe passing judgement on everything- picking and choosing what pleases him and what doesn't.. handing out virgins... and patting the fundementalists on the back when they arrive..hehehe
or could God be the energy that gives life to all things- the process of Life itself..that life itself has a consciousness, intelligence and design while also being pure potential- the unmanifested. The same enegry that spins the planet makes seeds grow and your heart beat.
religions suk, and any form or righteousness as well. how do we know what is really happening? you can't prove the Divine- but each individual can have their own experience of it.
peace
2006-12-08 03:56:03 · answer #4 · answered by zentrinity 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I would argue God is "shrinking." Hell, think back to our caveman ancestors. Every time there was a full moon, or a lightning storm, they cowered in fear and assigned some supernatural explanation to it. Every mystery we solve means God gets a little "smaller" in terms of the way we define what is and isn't supernatural. Perhaps atheists hold out for the day when we can explain everything rationally and render the notion of "God" irrelevant...
2006-12-08 03:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
edsawyer is exactly right, and because the gaps are getting smaller and humans are getting more and more advanced, you only know the end is coming sooner and sooner. God never intended for us to have all the knowledge he has. When we get too smart, the end will come. It's not really the end though, just the end of earth.
2006-12-08 03:49:15 · answer #6 · answered by deathvalley_queen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, and it'll lead to people not trying to find things out. Two thousand years ago, people didn't know that germs made them sick. They didn't understand this, so if they'd just assumed it was god maybe they would have stopped trying to find the real truth. Instead they did find what really caused sickness and found out how to cure. If you just credit non-understandings to god then progression will slow and the world will be worse off.
2006-12-08 03:46:13 · answer #7 · answered by ...... 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I beleive God created everything, therefore if science can't explain it, it is because they haven't studied it enough, or don't have the technology to understand it. But since God created everything, it all runs in perfect balance and order which science adventually will always be able to explain. I belive it!
2006-12-08 03:45:37 · answer #8 · answered by sweetgurllexi 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dear Mr. s g:
To think that 'God' is a superfluous explanation until the real one comes along is short-sighted.
That being said ....we should not use God as an excuse for every unknown.
2006-12-08 03:47:58 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is beyond our solar syatem?
First question WHAT IS A SYATEM?
As far as where the pink monkey is I'd say wherever the banana trail leads!
2006-12-08 03:46:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋