A shotgun wedding of philosophy A brief examination of a God-of-the-gaps version of theology in contemporary philosophy.

Ever since the dawn of the mutation of mechanistic sciences of Newton and the revolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, the advances of science has been a steady intrusion upon the traditional territory of religious knowledge. The success of the Age of Enlightenment is attributed to replacing outmoded religious notions with new science, which is the gradual shift of the privileged status of the authoritarian in modern society from the Church leaders to the scientists. This …showed first 75 words of 814 total…

…showed last 75 words of 814 total…of ontology of one for the other. And by subsuming religion to the philosophy of science Audi reduced God to a figurehead King of the Universe whose powers did not did not stretch beyond the laws of physics that regulated its own divine body. Noncognitivism is a nice attempt at leaving the backdoor open for God, but to a house full of scientists who may recognize the divine guest only at moments of social posturing.