The phrase “god of the gaps” makes me think of Christian vs atheist discourse at its worse: silly, superficial, and uninformed. It’s as if certain nonbelievers think the Christian conception of God is like Poseidon and ever since we learned about tectonic plates, we put all the sacred tridents in the storage closet never to be seen again.

Frankly I’ve never heard of or encountered any theist who actually believed in that kind of a god. Namely, one who is mutually exclusive with any phenomena that can be explained scientifically and who only operates in the unknown. As far as I know, the vast majority of believers in God, including this one, believe in a God who is the very source of every phenomenon, whether it has an accepted scientific explanation or not.

The strange thing to me is not to say that God is behind unexplained things, but rather to say that because we can write a formula to explain why something happens the way it does again and again, then therefore there’s no need to invoke a God to explain it. Let me get it straight then, an orderly world means no need for a God, but then what would a disorderly world mean? Why, no God, of course! Because if there were some kind of wise, powerful being behind it all, then surely we would find an orderly world! Got it?