Stephen Meyer Debunks the “God of the Gaps” Objection

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Stephen Meyer Debunks the “God of the Gaps” Objection

_{Rejecting Theistic Evolution ≠ Embracing a God of the Gaps} _{Stephen C. Meyer
December 18, 2017
Intelligent Design} _{View at YouTube}

A vacuous yet often heard objection to intelligent design decries ID as a “God of the gaps” argument. Here, Stephen Meyer requires less than three minutes to show that the complaint rests on a failure to understand a basic feature of the theory of ID. For more on this see the “God of the gaps” archive at Evolution News.

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