
#122 – Neil deGrasse Tyson: Christianity and the Cosmos
Almost Heretical
The God of the Gaps Argument
The solar system over enough given enough time would fly apart and go unstable. So he wrote, for the long term evolution of the solar system, God must step in every now and then to correct things because otherwise I know everything works. That's a God of the gaps argument. He couldn't figure out how to stabilize the solar system. And so he invoked God, the hand of God, to fix it every now andThen. A hundred years later Laplace, a French mathematician, solves that problem,. invents a branch of mathematics called perturbation theory.
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