MiloCast

Many years ago, there were a lot of things we did not know that we know now. We know that the earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around. We know that neither dancing nor sacrificing animals does anything to change the weather. We even know that germs cause disease, not demon possession, and that we can help prevent it by washing our hands.

All of these things have made the average person today a super genius compared to the average person of the dark ages. The ability to transfer information around the world practically instantly helps new knowledge spread to the masses.

So many things which were once credited to various gods are now understood. As science has described more of the natural world, we have all benefited by seeing reality overcome superstition. Now, if your crops die, you wouldn’t blame the old lady next door and have her burned as a witch.

All these developments have turned the “almighty god” into the “god of the gaps.” People can attribute fewer and fewer things we see to a supernatural entity as we learn the way things really work. New things are learned, the dogmatic religious people deny, argue, then finally accept the facts. Then they go right on claiming that their god is responsible for everything else we still don’t know.

The simple truth is that, whenever religious teachings and scientific results disagree and we eventually find out the truth, religion is wrong 100% of the time. That’s always. Just because we don’t know something doesn’t mean it’s unknowable. Just because we don’t know something yet is no reason to think that a god is a reasonable placeholder for an explanation for now. “God did it” is just another way of saying “I don’t know, and I’m happy with that.”