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    Invoking divine causation where a complete physical descr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The continual creation of matter in steady-state cosmology is a manifestation of perpetual divine creation.

    Invoking divine causation where a complete physical description already exists commits the 'God of the gaps' fallacy identified by Bonhoeffer and Pannenberg.

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    • 1.If physical description is complete, adding divine causation introduces explanatory redundancy without empirical consequence.
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    • 2.Historical pattern shows 'God did it' retreats as science advances, suggesting divine explanations fill ignorance, not genuine gaps.
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    • 3.Methodological naturalism succeeds precisely by excluding non-physical causes; invoking them abandons proven explanatory framework.
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    • 1.Physical description and divine causation operate at different ontological levels; completeness at one level doesn't exclude the other.
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    • 2.Some philosophers argue divine action explains *why* the physical laws themselves exist and hold—a gap no physical description closes.
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    • 3.Bonhoeffer/Pannenberg themselves rejected naive gap-filling but allowed non-competing divine explanation within complete physics.
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