Re: Disproving Atheism: God of the Gaps?

[Surhotchaperchlorome]

5thWatcher = epic fail.

[philstilwell]

But as material cause/effect explanations advance through scientific inquiry, we can deny gods of certain qualities. For example, if a religion strongly asserts that the world is geocentric, and we find that not to be true, the god of that religion cannot be true if that god was considered to be the author of the idea of geocentrism and had promised a mechanism (such as the holy spirit) to guarantee proper hermeneutics that led to the assertion.

[jaywalker23]

You can chip away at the credibility of a certain god by disproving specific claims about him. You can prove that the world wasn't created in 7 days for example but at the end of the day, you still haven't disproven the judeo christian god and especially not the concept of a creator. You will only have proven how unlikely or how ridiculous the concept is. One must differentiate between absolute proof and evidence to the contrary.

[jaywalker23]

You can disprove a lot of claims about god but there will always be room for his existence since the concept itself is too vague. History is always full of inaccuracies and any claim you disprove could just be labeled as just one of those inaccuracies

[philstilwell]

However, as you gradually relegate biblical claims into boxes of allegory or through research weaken claims such as the statistically observable power of the holy spirit, you are approximating an Einsteinian god that is personally inconsequential.