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the 'god of the gaps' fallacy, here the 'jinn of the gaps'

Cited in 2 segments across 1 recording · 2017 · principle/principle:god-of-the-gaps-fallacy

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20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Could strange symptoms blamed on jinn have medical explanations? Yes: face blindness, mirror-touch synaesthesia, phantom limbs, alien hand syndrome, the Capgras delusion, hemispatial neglect, aphantasia and foreign accent syndrome are all documented conditions that the past could only call demons. Blaming the unexplained on jinn is a 'jinn of the gaps'; the Prophet's hadith on cures says go and find the knowledge. Lessonposition checkedreport: allah did not send down a disease without sending down its cure those who know it know it and those who do not do notthe 'god of the gaps' fallacy, here the 'jinn of the gaps'jinn machine7 min 56 s1:37:52on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions How does Mufti Abu Layth explain an exorcist who speaks as his own jinn? The exorcist's 'jinn', which declared its love for him, is read as displacement of guilt: a religious man projecting feelings he could not own onto a jinn, believing it sincerely without it being true. People must own their failed relationships instead of blaming jinn. Lessonposition checkedraqi (one who performs ruqya; exorcist)jinnthe 'god of the gaps' fallacy, here the 'jinn of the gaps' machine5 min 12 s1:51:02on YouTube