A persistent view is that believers in God use the term God to be the answer to all of the deep unknowns we discover in our thinking and in our sciences. Thus, the term “God of the Gaps” (in our knowledge) was born.
Oddly, the phrase God of the Gaps has been used by Christians to admonish wayward believers, as well as by atheists to accuse believers of resorting to the fallacy of Argument from Ignorance. As someone put it, Goddidit is the answer to the deep unknowns we have been concerned with since birth.
What are some of the deep unknowns of concern?
1. Why is there something rather than nothing?
2. How did life begin?
3. What caused the Big Bang?
4. What was there before the Big Bang?
5. Is there life throughout the universe?
6. Where did the information come from that is contained in our DNA and RNA?
7. Was there a Deistic Creator of the universe?
8. Is there still a Theistic Creator?
9. Is there life after death?
Many more such deep questions exist, and they are difficult of not impossible to answer by naturalistic science. There are perhaps some reasons for this ignorance:
1. Mankind is not yet mentally ready for many of the answers,
2. We will derive some partial answers over time,
3. Some answers are given in the Bible, many not necessarily phrased for easy interpretation, and all require belief and faith in the Bible.
4. Many of these deep questions will simply never be answered by science.
Christianity, and I am a member of that faith, provides sufficing answers to many of these deep questions, and assigns the ultimate answers to the ministrations of God the Almighty. Some key questions are specifically answered in Genesis 1.1, and elsewhere in the Bible, and again require belief and faith by all.
Any of the many God of the Gaps questions and mankind's answers are obviously in themselves no proof of God's existence, but the sum of all true and complete answers revealed from God to everyone would be definitive.
The D******n of God and God's powers are all-encompassing and will not and cannot ever recede before the developing knowledge of science. The reactions of mankind to such deep knowledge are another matter entirely.
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