- [Explore ](https://reasons.org/explore) - - Publication - - What’s Your Answer to the God-of-the-Gaps Challenge?  Publication What’s Your Answer to the God-of-the-Gaps Challenge? ====================================================  by **Hugh Ross** June 28, 2023 **Question of the Week:** Do you have any material covering the god-of-the-gaps challenge raised by atheists? **My Answer:** Yes, in this open access peer-reviewed research paper on the origin and history of life and in my book *More Than a Theory*. It is important to contrast the god of the gaps with the no god of the gaps. It is what happens to the gaps as we learn more that shows the pathway to truth. If the gaps in knowledge and understanding from a model’s perspective get larger, more numerous, and more problematic, those outcomes stand as strong indications that the model is not on the pathway toward truth. Hence, such a model very likely needs to be abandoned or altered in major ways. On the other hand, if the gaps in knowledge and understanding from a model’s perspective get smaller, less numerous, and less problematic as more is learned about disciplines relevant to the model, such results strongly indicate that the model is on the pathway toward truth. Will gaps in knowledge and understanding ever be eliminated? No. Because we are constrained to the cosmic space-time dimensions, we can never learn and understand everything about the universe. For this reason we must test everything and hold on to what proves good (1 Thessalonians 5:21) and do so continually. Creation Model      [  ](https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/historic-age-debate-beginning-of-time "Historic Age Debate: Beginning of Time")##### Historic Age Debate: Beginning of Time Previously, we noted that the church has unanimously taught the doctrine of creation ex nihilo throughout its history (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)... Bible [  ](https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articulos/magnetic-reversal-found-in-ice-core "Magnetic Reversal Found in Ice Core")##### Magnetic Reversal Found in Ice Core A team of European scientists has found additional evidence that Earth is more than 10,000 years old. Ice cores in Antarctica and Greenland show... Creation Model [  ](https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/voices/nutritional-needs-for-men-and-women-highlight-gender-differences "Nutritional Needs for Men and Women Highlight Gender Differences")##### Nutritional Needs for Men and Women Highlight Gender Differences “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Biology