What happens when there is a natural phenomenon or natural occurrence in nature and a gap in science can't explain it?
In the past, many times, religion tried to explain gaps in science. For example, if there was a drought, religious leaders and religious people would say the gods are mad at us. We now now know that the earth has weather patterns based on the laws of science and these occurrences happen due to science and not an angry god.
What about death? Not one person knows what happens after we die. Science has no answers yet. What happens after we die is a huge unknown.
All the crazies come out of the wood work trying to explain what happens after we die. Or how we can achieve life after death. Psychics and ancient mythological religions are at the forefront pretending to be certain of the answer.
When will the masses see the correlation of this gap in science and realize everyone is just guessing?
What do I think? I can't prove it; however, I think its obvious, when we die, that's it. I'm not being flippant here, death is not a pleasant thing, death is tragic. People we love, pass and we miss them for the rest of our lives.
Please don't tell me you have the answer—with certainty—after we die. Anyone who says we live forever, after we die, is simply guessing and telling a big fat lie. They are fraudulent.
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Believe it or not, the "god of the gaps" concept goes back 115 years! Check out this excerpt:
"If God is only to be left to the gaps in our knowledge, where shall we be when these gaps are filled up? And if they are never to be filled up, is God only to be found in the disorders of the world? Those who yield to the temptation to reserve a point here and there for special divine interposition are apt to forget that this virtually excludes God from the rest of the process. If God appears periodically, he disappears periodically. If he comes upon the scene at special crises, he is absent from the scene in the intervals. Whether is all-God or occasional-God the nobler theory? Positively, the idea of an immanent God, which is the God of Evolution, is infinitely grander than the occasional wonder-worker, who is the God of an old theology."
Drummond, Henry. The Lowell Lectures on The Ascent of Man. New York: James Pott & Co., 1894.
http://books.google.com/books?id=1OImz7hSqWgC&dq=%22the+ascent+of+man%22+drummond+1894&as_brr=1
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