evolution of the gaps

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

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"Well, this is 'evolution-of-the-gaps.' Some scientists merely insert evolution when they don't understand something. “Look —we may not understand everything about these biological systems, but we do know some things.”"
"It is therefore clear how an evolution-of-the-gaps could be just as metaphysically motivated for an incautious atheist as a God-of-the-gaps could be for an incautious theist."

By analogy to God of the gaps.

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