...causes for occurences? This is in relation to the 'god of the gaps' theory. When the gaps vanish, will god vanish?
2007-03-15 06:39:05 · 12 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think so but it'll take 200 years to really kick in.
2007-03-15 06:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
But how do you close the biggest gap of all?
Do you think that dolphins ponder issues of religion and spiriatuality? Do Labs and German Shepherds wonder if there is a higher power? Do mountain gorillas organize, form governments, colonize other nations, and establish nations, commonwealths, and multinational businesses?
Humans are unique. Animals with which we credit great intelligence do not do the things we do. The very fact that we wonder about our origins, our desitines after death, and the fact that we debate about this suggests that we are, in some fundamental way, different from everything else on the earth. I will grant that other life may have evolved, but I have a hard time seeing how we got so far ahead of everyone else if, indeed, we all started with a "bang."
When you can close that gap for me, then I will consider that science as the ultimate explanation. Until then, I'll keep my faith.
2007-03-15 13:48:34 · answer #2 · answered by mesasa1978 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an interesting question. I think the IDEA of God is vanishing yes, and that is in keeping with Bible prophecy that the "love of the greater number will cool off."
I think as secular knowledge increases people become more independent. With all due respect, the one common thread I've seen here again and again from non-believers is a general unwillingness to submit to authority .. the question why should we listen... why should I obey... is very common. It's not that God's power has lessened. IMHO merely mankind's humility has.
2007-03-15 13:45:28 · answer #3 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This was the assumption of the Age of Reason and its proponents.
After the discovery of multiple planets orbiting the sun, and Ben Franklin's discovery that lightning was electricity, not thunderbolts from God, it was assumed that Reason would supplant religion as the default. Thomas Paine, who kick-started the American Revolution with his pamphlet 'Common Sense' thought he was doing the same to popularize Reason over religion when he published 'The Age of Reason' at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Unfortunately, the backlash by power figures at that time and since has kept most of humanity in the Dark Ages, firmly believing in all the gaps--even the ones that have already been closed.
We're just looking for our next Ben or Tom to take us to the next level, I guess.
2007-03-15 13:50:29 · answer #4 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From time immemorial, anything that cannot be explained by logical means is attributed to God or Devil. In the past, where education and knowledge was reserved for the elite, rich and priesthood... Ignorance abounded....
Now equipped with better knowledge... people are more sensible, I mean although it still happens, but most people wouldnt go to the local shaman or witch to cast out demons when they are stricken with a cough or fever... they go to a doctor first.
God/deities has now become more internalised and viewed more as an ideal... despite many religions arguments on faith, they would still go to a hospital to cure cancer COUPLED with prayers, whereas in the past, any such notion would be punishable by death for heresy
2007-03-15 13:53:02 · answer #5 · answered by Tenzin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many Christians still deny anything is caused by nature. God controls everything. I even heard them argue the other day that Gravity didn't exist. That God holds everything down.
2007-03-15 13:46:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think more Glory will be reveled as man discovers more things on this earth. The conclusion will be always "God is amazing that He can create these things a million times while man cannot do even within a million years."
2007-03-15 13:49:33 · answer #7 · answered by theSeed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god of the gaps. i like that.
no, God will never disappear, His image might be changed to fit future ideals, but ppl NEED faith. from the dawn of time belief in something greater has been prevalent.
2007-03-15 13:44:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, everyone throughout history has worshipped either a god or the true God.
2007-03-15 14:07:46 · answer #9 · answered by kitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man has, and always will, attempt to deny God, but he will never do so completely. For there is a God, and He reigns forever and ever.
2007-03-15 13:43:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but belief in a god isn't based on reason so there will probably always be people who can believe, simply because they want it to be true.
2007-03-15 13:42:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋