Why not God of the Gaps?

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

@Paulm12

Thus while God of the Gaps fails as a scientific explanation, it does not always fail as one that maximizes the conditional probability of the observed data.

Agreed.

@Paulm12

To claim that God would be an invalid hypothesis would thus open up the criticism of a “naturalism of the gaps,” that attempts to explains that all phenomena in terms of scientific laws.

Any thoughts? Are there any circumstances where you think invoking God as a causal factor would be valid (and if so, when)?

In individuals’ lives, and where no scientific laws have been broken (another title change, as of yesterday ; - )…

Factual evidence for Christians to rejoice in, remember and recount, and for true seekers to ponder

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