# God of the Gaps "God of the gaps" names a recurring argumentative move: wherever current science cannot yet explain a phenomenon, a divine or designed cause is inserted as the default explanation. It is a form of the argument from ignorance ("we can't explain X, therefore agent Y"), and its weakness is structural — as science advances, the gaps close and the explanatory placeholder retreats. The KB invokes it to diagnose [[Intelligent Design]] arguments such as [[Irreducible Complexity]] and origin-of-life creationism (see The Origin of Life), which depend on particular gaps remaining permanently unexplained. The long history of gaps closing — chronicled for life chemistry in The History of Biochemistry — is the standing empirical rebuttal. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to resolve inbound wikilinks. Expand with the term's origin (Drummond, Bonhoeffer), its logical structure, and its role in the evolution/creationism debates. ## See Also - The Origin of Life - [[Irreducible Complexity]] - [[Intelligent Design]] - [[Falsifiability]]