God-of-the-Gaps
- sharpdb
- Aug 24
- 2 min read
Hosts: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer
Guest: Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
The argument made by atheists and anti-creationists is that as scientists solves problems, our God gets smaller. This has never been an impressive argument, as my observation is that when one question is answered, six more unsolved mysteries appear. For scientists to make the god-of-the-gaps argument, they need to have knowledge about everything and be omnipotent, even to be able to time travel into the past.
This argument is a fallacy. Divine intervention is used to explain phenomena currently missing a scientific cause. While critics suggest that increasing knowledge eliminates the need for a creator, Jerry Bergman points out that modern discoveries reveal greater complexities that naturalism cannot explain. Scientific progress has exposed vast new questions in fields such as cellular biology and cosmology, suggesting that they are better explained by intelligent design than by materialistic evolution by mutations and natural selection. Evolutionists rely upon their own evolution-of-the-gaps by using speculative theories to bridge missing links in the fossil record. Intelligent design triumphs over materialism.
Chemical evolution experiments fail to produce all 20 amino acids used in life, and int the laboratory they are produced in racemic mixtures with both left-handed and right-handed conformations. Chemistry in the laboratory is unable to replicate the conditions needed to remove the water molecule when forming peptide bonds. Life uses a complicated mechanism that codes for the formation of proteins using only left-handed amino acids. A naturalistic explanation is not possible.
To claim that scientific progress will answer all questions will need no role left for God fails miserably. If naturalistic explanations are wrong, how does it eliminate the possibility that God did it, especially if God really did do it?
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