Russellings - February 27th, 2008

12:27 am - The God of the Gaps

Yesterday I wrote about the odd habit that True Believers have of pointing out flaws or omissions in the findings of science and then leaping from there to the idea that their own unscientific beliefs are thereby (somehow or other) validated.

To oversimplify, this is akin to having me claim that a car is red, having them point to the grill and door handles (chrome-plated metal) and saying that, since those particular parts aren’t red, the car must be blue. They’ve made no affirmative case for their own blueness point of view, only pointed out that my redness claim isn’t 100% pure.

It turns out they’ve been using this trick for quite a long while — so long, in fact, that the practice has acquired a name. It’s known as ( The God of the Gaps )

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