God of the gaps

One of the arguments involving science and God is that science has pushed the idea of of God so far back that there are now merely gaps that science has not yet answered but will relegating Christians to fill the gaps by saying “God did it”.

I would argue that many of the supposed gaps were merely a lack of scientific knowledge on the part of some Christians who mistakenly ascribed non-biblical explanations for the natural world. One such argument would be the “Flat Earth” argument in that the bible is said to describe the Earth as being flat.
Although I personally question the origins of the flat earth stance for this article I will say that even if Christians once held this belief the idea that the Earth is flat is not scriptural.

The bible makes several references to the Earth being round and even arguably spherical. But that isn’t really my point to debate that point in this article. My point is that God was never in a gap to begin with. God created all things. Our understanding of how things function do not disprove the idea of God but give us an even greater awe for such a creator through our understanding of how things around us work.

The Big Bang theory was only introduced in the last century and some seemed to accept this theory reluctantly because of the fact that is did support the idea that the Universe as we know it did have a starting point, as the bible stated, “In the beginning”.

Other points from science is that life started in the sea and that man is a relative newcomer to the scene in contrast to the rest of the species seem to also agree. Mind you I’m not arguing for or against any theory here, only that the idea that God has been reduced to gaps is unfounded.

Other suggestions that the bible describes the sun moving as opposed to the Earth being the actual object that moves also discredit the bible yet when I look at my morning newspaper it tells me what time sunrise and sunset will be. Shouldn’t it have a more accurate description or is it written more simplistically from our Earth-based perspective.

Another commenter here on the blog made a remark about hand-washing when the Old testament makes it clear.

There really is only one gap and it is for unbelievers, that God is the maker of all things and provided a bridge over that gap that man has fallen into. That gap filler is Jesus Christ.