God of the Gaps

Many times, secularists accuse creation scientists and ID advocates of using the "God of the Gaps" concept. What is this concept? Essentially, it claims that anything we don't understand about science or nature can be supplemented by the fact that "God made it that way." While this is true, it does not serve as a legitimate scientific reason for explaining something in nature. And it is true as well that some creationists do use this argument. But, what many don't realize is that secularists use a "God of the Gaps" scenario as well. I call it the "Natural-Selection of the Gaps."

What is this? The primary axiom of evolution states that every living thing arose from a prior ancestral organism through a combined process of mutations coupled with natural selection. I will deal with mutations in a later post. Natural selection is a favorite catchword with evolutionists nowadays. What is natural selection? Natural selection states that as organisms evolve, environmental conditions affect the organim during its evolution so as to cause some of the organisms to die out and some to thrive. This is also referred to "survival of the fittest." It is true that unfit organisms in an environment will not survive. However, by stating this, they are actually imbuing nature with a certain power and ability that it does not possess. They claim that the environment chooses the creatures that are fit to survive, and those that are not. How can the environment (or nature in general) choose anything, for it is not a sentient being? Nature can no more choose the creatures that will fill its environment than a book can choose to be written.

While this is bad enough, whenever asked about how an organism can be so well designed to survive in a certain environment, they claim "Natural selection." Yet, they give no explanation as to how nature did this. They claim it as their default mechanism. And yet, they accuse creationists of using a default mechanism. But, let's think about this. Which is a more logical default mechanism? Believing in an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God who is capable of doing all things, or believing in an impersonal natural, mystical force that somehow guided evolution? I think I will stick with a belief in God.

I do not espouse the "God of the Gaps" theory. I do not use it except in circumstances where I do not understand the concept fully, or if there is no explanation yet. In a future post, I will deal with natural selection and mutations. We'll see where they lead.