The Gaps Continue To Get Smaller and Fewer

Anyone who is aware of the interactions between religious apologists and their counter-apologists knows that virtually ALL arguments for a God involve the God of the Gaps fallacy: a theological perspective in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of God's existence.^[1][2]   It's clearly a logical fallacy, an appeal to ignorance. 

Click on the link below for a podcast discussing a recent finding that gets us much closer to solving one of the mysteries that is used by religious apologists; abiogenesis:

New Discovery in the Chemistry of Life

Math Isn't Evidence of God

 I have written several posts debunking religious apologists' arguments from ignorance/God of the Gaps. Among them is the argument from mathematics. Click on the link below for a 10-minute video presenting another rebuttal to such:

Why Math isn't Evidence of God

Atheist: Don't Fall Into A Theist Trap

Atheists usually challenge theist arguments as being "God of the Gaps." While this is true, some atheists make a "Naturalism of the Gaps" faulty argument. How is that, you might ask? Well, aren't theists making positive claims that there IS a God when using "God of the Gaps" arguments? When atheists make positive claims that all reality IS natural, they are also guilty of speaking out of the confines of what is known. The only justified answer to theist's claims is "We don't know, but God is not necessary." See the difference?

• Making a positive claim that there is a God is assuming knowledge not justified. This is the "God of the Gaps" argument.
• Making a positive claim that all reality is natural is assuming knowledge not justified. This is Philosophical Naturalism.
• Saying "We don't know" to a claim that can't be falsified is Methodological Naturalism and is a major feature of the scientific method. Let's not give the theist any evidence of faulty reasoning.

Click on this link for more on Methodological Naturalism. The burden of proof is on the one making the claim. Don't make claims that cannot be supported.

Let The Mystery Be

The main problem with promoters of religion, alternatives to medicine and all other pseudoscience is that they move past the knowledge provided by science.  This is called The Argument from Ignorance or if it is from the religious, The God of the Gaps Argument.  Why do this?  This article explains the situation quite succinctly and clearly. Wouldn't you think that if one God was real, one religion's claims would be accepted by science and there would be no gaps?

Why not just stay within what we really know and just "Let the Mystery Be?"

False Equivalency In Politics

Yes, this period of political campaigning has been extraordinary in its polarity and vitriol.  To accept what the activist partisans from the right and left are saying, one may think both sides are equally to blame.  If you are one of these folks, please consider that there clearly is a "false equivalency" here: 

• There is a clear attempt by Republicans to prevent legitimate judicial appointments.  
• There is a clear attempt by Republicans to prevent voting by minorities.
• Republicans do not accept science on many topics, including religion, evolution, climate change, and sex and gender.
• There is clearly a hijacking of the Republican party by the ignorant, bigoted and dogmatic, with Donald Trump being the most visible sign of such.
• There is a significant movement within this Republican Party for "Total War" against the Democrats should Hillary Clinton be elected President of the USA

A Classical Argument From Ignorance Debunked

'We can never understand the size of our ignorance."

“A Universe That’s Understandable Points to God,” but How Understandable Is the Universe?
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