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From: Mark Isaak <specimenNOSPAM@curioustaxon.omy.net>
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Subject: Re: Paradoxes
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 09:26:49 -0800
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On 2/3/25 1:32 PM, MarkE wrote:
> On 4/02/2025 4:29 am, Ernest Major wrote:
>> On 03/02/2025 06:45, MarkE wrote:
>>> On 3/02/2025 4:23 am, Mark Isaak wrote:
>>>> On 1/26/25 9:29 PM, MarkE wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> An atheistic worldview may preference naturalistic options, and a 
>>>>> theistic worldview may preference the God option. We may give more 
>>>>> weight and consideration to a particular explanation based, in 
>>>>> part, on our belief.
>>>>>
>>>>> Moreover, science itself can tell us nothing about this postulated 
>>>>> agent. That is the task of other epistemological domains 
>>>>> (philosophy, theology, personal experience, etc). Nevertheless, 
>>>>> science can provide an evidential pointer to God as a possible 
>>>>> explanation.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> If I believed in the god you believe in, I would be an atheist.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How so?
>>>
>>> Just to clarify, I believe that the material world and the study and 
>>> understanding of it reveals much about its creator, e.g. "The heavens 
>>> declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his 
>>> hands." (Psalm 19:1). This is so-called "natural theology". But 
>>> science has no access to the things of God available only through 
>>> "special revelation".
>>>
>>
>> To put it in a few words, a god of the gaps is no god at all.
> 
> Which is why I argue for science pointing to the God-of-the-gulfs (as 
> you may recall): https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/Q0H4U47iYgk/ 
> m/2fprGczIBwAJ

Which is a god of the gaps.  It is purely your imagination that science 
points at a god there.

-- 
Mark Isaak
"Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That
doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.'" - Mary Doria Russell