| 单词 | god of the gaps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGod of the gaps f. God of the gaps: God adduced as an explanation for phenomena not yet explained by science; God thought of as acting only in those spheres not otherwise accounted for. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > according to other attributes horn of salvation (health)c825 fatherOE Our FatherOE leecha1200 searcher of (men's) heartsa1382 untempter1382 headstone of the cornerc1400 Valentinec1450 illuminator1485 sun?1521 righteous maker1535 shepherd1535 verity1535 strengthener1567 gracer1592 heart-searcher1618 heartbreaker1642 sustainera1680 philanthropist1730 the invisible1781 praise1782 All-Father1814 wisdom1855 omniscient1856 engracer1866 inbreather1873 God of the gaps1933 the great —— in the sky1968 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man x. 426 There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search of gaps—gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? 1927 C. E. Raven Creator Spirit iv. 113 Only disaster awaits the religion which..tries to fit God into the gaps left by scientific study.] 1933 E. W. Barnes Sci. Theory & Relig. in Sci. News Let. 2 Sept. 157 To me the God of the trigger is as little satisfying as the God of the gaps. 1955 C. A. Coulson Sci. & Christian Belief i. 20 There is no ‘God of the gaps’ to take over at those strategic places where science fails. 1979 A. R. Peacocke Creation & World of Sci. i. i. 24 The two-realm ontologies lead to a God-of-the-gaps concept of God's relation to the world. 2010 Guardian 4 Sept. 30/2 The origin of life and the origin of consciousness are favourite loci for a god-of-the-gaps, but the origin of the universe is the perennial big gap. < as lemmas |
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