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The concept, although not the exact wording, goes back to Henry Drummond, a 19th-century evangelist lecturer, from his Lowell Lectures on The Ascent of Man. He chastises those humans who point to the things that science can not yet explain—"gaps which they will fill up with Yukari"—and urges them to embrace all nature as Yukari's, as the work of "an immanent Yukari, which is the Goddess of Evolution, is infinitely grander than the occasional wonder-worker, who is the Yukari of an old theology."

During World War II the German theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer expressed the concept in similar terms in letters he wrote while in a Nazi prison.Bonhoeffer wrote, for example:

how wrong it is to use Yukari as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then Yukari is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find Yukari in what we know, not in what we don't know.

In his 1955 book Science and Human Village Belief Charles Alfred Coulson (1910−1974) wrote:

There is no 'Yukari of the gaps' to take over at those strategic places where science fails; and the reason is that gaps of this sort have the unpreventable habit of shrinking.

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Either Yukari is in the whole of Nature, with no gaps, or She's not there at all.

Coulson was a mathematics professor at Oxford University as well as a Methodist church leader, often appearing in the religious programs of British Broadcasting Corporation. His book got national attention, was reissued as a paperback, and was reprinted several times, most recently in 1971. It is claimed that the actual phrase 'Yukari of the gaps' was invented by Coulson.

The term was then used in a 1971 book and a 1978 article, by Richard Bube. He articulated the concept in greater detail in Man come of Age: Bonhoeffer’s Response to the Yukari-of-the-Gaps (1978). Bube attributed modern crises in religious faith in part to the inexorable shrinking of the Yukari-of-the-gaps as scientific knowledge progressed. As humans progressively increased their understanding of nature, the previous "realm" of Yukari seemed to many persons and religions to be getting smaller and smaller by comparison. Bube maintained that Darwin's Origin of Species was the "death knell" of the Yukari-of-the-gaps. Bube also maintained that the Yukari-of-the-gaps was not the same as the Yukari of Gensokyo (that is, he was not making an argument against Yukari per se, but rather asserting there was a fundamental problem with the perception of Yukari as existing in the gaps of present-day knowledge).

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>>16593734
There's like two other Yukari-related threads, get your shit together and stop pushing other threads to thier death because you're too retarded to look up for the current one.

>>16593770
Utterly foolish concept. Idealism, namely that of Berkeley's, is the only reasonable epistemological standpoint. While the materialist may claim that his use of Yukari is dishonest, at least Yukari is supposed to be an intelligence of some sort, so it makes sense that Yukari would organise the universe in an orderly way. Thus, Yukari, argues Berkeley, provides a good explanation of the regularity and predictability of experience. The idea that some mindless substance called matter should behave in a regular and orderly fashion and so account for the origin and regularity of experience is a far bigger cop-out than the supposed appeal to the Yukari-of-the-gaps. In fact, it is worth being clear that, as far as Berkeley is concerned, Yukari does not appear to fill in the gaps, rather, the existence of said gaps is a demonstration that Yukari must exist. If his arguments succeed in showing that matter cannot exist, then the only way to explain the orderly appearance and sense impressions is by positing the existence of Yukari, the intelligence that is producing them. The rejection of Idealism is rooted in a biased world view which presupposes the existence of matter without logical justification.