Mastodawn

Mar 13, 2025

I used to believe the God of the Gaps theory revealed god is ever-shrinking as we explore every dimension of knowledge, and an intelligent person should take the calculus equation to the limit and recognize it indicates god isn't there.

Now, I keep zooming into the curve and seeing that the gaps will always be there--it's scale invariant.

That isn't to say my conception of god hasn't changed (a lot) as I learn and experience life. But my thesis about what makes us human involves a concept of god more and more.

#philosophy

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Sunboy

@canadaduane This is formally called Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. But even then God of the Gaps was never a strong theological argument. It's mostly just an argument used by those who are not into theology, or by atheists while pointing out how many events explained by referring to a creator God could actually be explained by physical laws. The biggest argument has always been ontology (study of how things that exist come into being).