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I think the more important question is, parang siyempre Catholicism is a pre-medieval thing, diba?

Ang claim namin is 2,000 years.

O, diba? 2,000 years.

From the time na-establish ni Jesus ang simbahan nung 33 years old siya.

Kay St. Peter, diba?

Dito niyong nag-anay. You are the rock, diba?

Yan yung claim ng Catholic Church. So, 2,000 years.

2,000 years. 2,022, diba?

2,022. Iisama natin yan. The birth of Jesus.

So, ganyan. So, with that.

So, siyempre, it's a...

I don't know if you can say it's ancient, diba? Pero we are now in this new era.

With all the discoveries, developments in technology.

Ang naalala ko dito is yung sinabi ni Neil deGrasse Tyson.

I don't know if siya yung originator nito pero binanggit niya yun.

Yung idea nung God of the Gaps.

Ayo.

Diba? The God of the Gaps is parang...

So, let's say, dati kasi.

Since we're not... hindi pa scientifically literate yung mga tao.

Let's say, bakit umuulan?

Diba? Kasi mabait ang Diyos.

So, until ma-discover nung mga tao na...

Ay, hindi. Kasi nage-evaporate pala yung tubig.

Tapos nagiging ulap. Tapos babagsak siya ulit as ulan.

So, water cycle.

Tapos yung hindi mo alam, yun naman yung si God, diba?

Kaya tinawag na God of the Gaps.

So, yung maliit na pagitan ng mystery.

Oo. Nasagot na.

Nasagot na yung mystery. Tapos biglang lumiit naman yung mystery.

Pero ngayon si God yung gagawin mong explanation dun sa God of the Gaps.

Oo. Dun sa next mystery.

Okay, CCU, na-figure out natin yung water cycle.

So, bakit ngayon, sa physics yan usually,

bakit ang buwan umiikot sa mundo?

O kaya bakit yung mundo umiikot sa araw?

Hindi pa nila alam kung ano yung gravity dati.

Tsaka yung mga forces na yan.

So, hindi. Dahil ganoon din nasayin ng Diyos.

Yes, yes.

So, yun ang explanation na.

Until people figure it out.

So, once people figure it out,

edi parang nabawasan ang nabawasan yung participation ni God sa creation, diba?

So...

And to be fair, sa atheist side, mayroon din tinatawag na science of the gaps naman.

Okay.

Wherein, anything na hindi naman ma-explain ang science ngayon,

is sasabihin natin na someday ma-discover ng science ang explanation dyan.

So, yun naman yung science of the gaps.

Ang masasabi ko lang din sa God of the gaps is medyo parang unfalsifiable claim siya.

Sabi ni Karl Popper, meron siyang sinabi na kung ang isang theory scientific dapat at least may pagka-falsifiable siya.

What do you mean falsifiable?

Kunwari, nagbigay ako ng explanation ng something.

Lagi mong sasabihin na God of the gaps to.

And ngayon, ang challenge ko is, kailan yung point na hindi mo na sasabihin God of the gaps ang isang explanation?

Kasi parang unfalsifiable siya, diba?

Wala siyang ending.

So, let's say pag sinabi ko yung kalam-cosmological argument or yung may argument for God's existence dun sa objective morality.

Saan nakaground ang morality?

So, let's say, kaya nating ginagawa ang kabutihan is there's a certain divine grounding sa moral good.

And itong divine grounding na ito is God.

Sabi ng isang atheist, hindi, God of the gaps lang yan dahil hindi mo ma-explain.

And ngayon, parang the problem there is what possible answer can I give sa isang atheist para hindi niya masabing God of the gaps ang isang argument for God.

And mostly ng mga argument kay God are philosophical kasi.

Philosophical, logical.

So, yun yung mga...

Well, I think it's easier to...

I think you can argue the existence of God philosophically, ganyan.

And strongest siguro would be philosophically.

But if you're gonna go to the nitty-gritty, especially Christianity or Islam na meron kang book na dapat it happened.

Allegedly, it's supposed to be happen. Everything happened according to whatever is said in that book.

So, yun yung parang...

So, let's say kasi yun yung problem ko sometimes when discussing the Bible with atheist parang medyo...

Kailangan, sige guys, let's agree muna na God exists.

Kasi next level yun eh.

Yung revelation naman.

Next level is yung divine revelation which is yun nga yung Bible.

And sa case ng Muslims yung Quran.

So, before we get there, kailangan pag-usapan muna natin itong bagay na ito.

Does God exist?

Then if He exists, paano niya i-reveal ang sarili niya sa creation niya?

So, yun yung next level.

And mostly na kikita ko with atheism is ini-skip nila yung middle ground na let's agree muna that God exists.

Dumidiretso na sila sa Bible.

And with little knowledge sa Bible, medyo talagang makakakuha ka ng seemingly contradictions, seemingly absurdities.

And for me, hindi yun yung honest approach in discussing this thing.

So, parang nasa first floor pa lang tayo pero third floor na yung pinag-usapan natin.

So, yun yung tingin ko.

And for me, yung Bible, even si Jordan Peterson may re-release siyang video on the Bible.

Namamangha siya sa Bible. Kasi, let's say yung Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It's 11 years of storytelling, 20 plus movies, or ngayon 30 na.

Pero from the first movie, yung Iron Man, up until Infinity Wars, hahanga yung tao.

Because within 11 years, nakagawa sila ng isang coherent story under the guidance of Kevin Feige, yung pinaka-producer ng Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And understandable kasi, kaya niyang magpa-pitch meeting sa mga directors, sa mga writers.

11 years, nakagawa sila ng isang coherent story. Ang difference nito sa Bible is, sa Bible, it's around 6,000 years of storytelling.

And most of the writers, hindi magkakakilala.

And yung mga references in one chapter to the other book, napakadami.

Parang yung connection niya is, kumbaga yung mga Easter eggs, nakakalat within the whole Bible.

And napaka-coherent niya, from start to finish.

So yun yung isa sa hinahangaan ko sa Bible. Kung humahanga ka sa Marvel Cinematic Universe, mas kahanganga yung Bible.

And hindi magkakilala itong mga authors na ito. But the story is very coherent.

Minus yung mga seemingly inconsistency, mas marami yung coherence niya kesa yung inconsistencies niya.

Well, of course, siyempre kung tatanungin mo yung atheist, siyempre hindi siya mag-agree.

Definitely na.