Pushing God from gap to gap.

[Prodigy54321]

so when the river flooded and the crops grew and sustained people...Osiris did it.

when lightning and thunder crashed...Zeus did it

countless other unexplained phenomena have been attributed to gods...but these phenomena have since been explained without invoking a concious being who willed these things to happen.

every time we figure something out...we push "the God hypothesis" back further and further..into bigger unexplained phenomena...

although there are still people who maintain that God does miraculous things..healing the sick, for instance....or HAS DONE miraculous things..flooding the earth, creating humans (not via natural processes and evolution)..

God has pretty much been pushed back to the creation of EVERYTHING...this, at least, believers are sure of...

is this the last frontier for God?..is there any more room for God to be pushed back into?

if not..if most people continue to believe in God..even when he is pushed back to the ultimate extent...is there really any hope that, through further exploration of the universe and further understanding of it, people will let go of this belief?

the only "cure" if this is the case, it the knowledge of EVERYTHING..so that no room is left to place a god...we certainly can't expect to achieve that..right?

Why do people insist on filling up the gaps with gods in the first place?...hasn't history clearly shown that this is misguided?..How many beliefs concerning gods have to be later proven to be wrong before people acknowledge that maybe their own beliefs are of the same flavor?

What I really mean to ask is...which is a better tactic for ending a person's belief in a god...taking one of the gaps they propose a god "resides" in a and filling it...or showing the person why their tendency to fill these gaps with a god in the first place is illogical?

the former, as could be inferred by my rant, seems futile to me...as we have seen, people have no problem pushing God back as far as is possible.