God of the Gaps

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | No Comments »

You've probably heard the term "God of the Gaps" before. If not, another phrase used for this concept is the "argument from ignorance." This is basically an anti-theist argument which tries to make theists look like wishful thinkers. The main premise is that the anti-theist claims that believers will give the credit to God for anything that they can't think of a natural explanation for. Essentially, they like to make it look like we just throw ...