A common objection to Newton’s view of the relationship between science and theistic belief is known as the God-of-the-gaps objection (hereafter, the GOTG objection). According to those who pose this objection, the GOTG fallacy occurs whenever someone invokes the activity of a creative intelligence or God to explain phenomena or events in the natural world. Such postulations, critics argue, stifle scientific advance by using God (or creative intelligence) to account for phenomena or events that scientists will eventually explain, once they discover new laws of nature or material processes.
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