Re: Atheism of the Gaps

Steve Clark (ssclark@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 12:57:31 -0600

Jim Bell writes:

>This is precisely the same sort of "materialist gap" I see in the evolutionary
>field. Some of the top evolutionary minds--e.g., Tattersall, G. R. Taylor,
>etc.--admit that the sudden emergence of man cannot currently be explained
>through pure materialism. They hold out for an eventual "something (natural)"
>that WILL explain it.
>
>That looks just like faith to me.

So what if it looks like faith? The question is, at what stage do we know
that there is no materialistic explanation for a phenomenon?

Steve
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