> > > > To me, the more we learn about ourselves, and the more we study the limits of our own minds and the structure of nature in the grand measure of the world, the more awesome God, and his gifts to us, are made glorified (Ps 19). In other words, as Brunnen-G says, why should He be only a "God of the gaps we haven't yet figured out"?
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> > *I* said that? Are you sure? I thought Issachar said that.
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> > Brunnen-"wondering if my subconscious has been logging on to argue theology while I'm asleep"G
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> Here's the thread:
> Link: Hedonism, Happiness, & the God of the Ever-Smaller Gaps

Yes, exactly, Nyperold. I was thinking of how Brunnen-G commented on how the "God of the gaps" belief has its own problem in that,

"This is really the idea of science as the opponent of spirituality, and the assumption that they are rivals in the same sphere where only one can be true. This has probably always been a human concept, but I don't see the relationship myself.
"At this time in history, we know a staggering number of natural causes for previously unexplainable phenomena. I don't think that an amazing thing becomes any less amazing - or spiritual - when you know all the reasons behind it. It may become even more so.
"I can look at the sun shining through leaves and feel awe for God's work, whether or not I know about chlorophyll, photosynthesis, reactions within the sun, or the process by which solar radiation crosses space to reach the tree outside my window. If I stop and consider these things, I usually feel more awe, not less, at the complexity of the world."

Wolf "Here is Reality; insofar as it is accessible to provoke profound emotional response and human reason." spirit