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Join Neil deGrasse Tyson as he unpacks the idea of the “God of the Gaps” — the tendency to use divine explanation whenever science hasn’t yet found an answer. 🌌 In this insightful discussion, Neil explores how history shows that as science progresses, those “gaps” in our understanding shrink, pushing us to rely more on evidence and curiosity than on mystery. #NeilDeGrasseTyson #Science #Philosophy #CriticalThinking #Cosmos | Explore Science

Christians are sometimes accused of the ‘God of the Gaps’ fallacy. This is when someone explains something away by pointing to God, for example, Question: “Why was there a lightning strike?” Answer: “God.” As our scientific knowledge has grown, so too has naturalistic explanations for things. In contrast, naturalists are occasionally guilty of a ‘Scientism of the gaps’ fallacy. An example of this might be, Question: “How did the first life form come into existence?”, Answer: “We don’t know, but

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