Saturday, September 13, 2008

God of the Gaps

As with most things I needed to find some counterpart in the naturalness of the world that I could say that what I see of such measures, is more the rule of thumb, then to relegate "this space" as of "only of God," to mean, that the mysteries are illusive and such terminology is the persistence of going from a "religion to science."

The God of the gaps refers to a view of God deriving from a theistic position in which anything that can be explained by human knowledge is not in the domain of God, so the role of God is therefore confined to the 'gaps' in scientific explanations of nature. The concept involves an interaction of religious explanations of nature with those derived from science (see also Relationship between religion and science). Within the traditional theistic view of God as existing in a realm "beyond nature," as science progresses to explain more and more, the perceived scope of the role of God tends to shrink as a result.


It has always been this way for me, that such terms produced in our halls of higher learning should not be misconstrued as unimportant because of this "illusiveness or mystery" that one's exuberance, might issue from lack of knowledge. That by filling that space with knowledge one becomes much more astute at the recognition of the dimensionality of that space and it's degrees of freedom.

Degrees of freedom is a general term used in explaining dependence on parameters, and implying the possibility of counting the number of those parameters. In mathematical terms, the degrees of freedom are the dimensions of a phase space.


So to me what measure for sure that I could attain some clarity about what the metric looks like, as we chart the progressiveness of our reason. For me such ideas are to illustrate by example, would be to consider the analogy thusly presented, and to think about this space, as a "cup of water." The material that one might like to immerse in this fluid, such as a teaspoon of sugar, is the idea that "what matters" can fit in another's, in between nature of this fluid by absorption.

In mathematics and physics, a phase space, introduced by Willard Gibbs in 1901, is a space in which all possible states of a system are represented, with each possible state of the system corresponding to one unique point in the phase space.

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