I'm quite apathetic toward the whole thing. I have very little concern with why. I can't change what happened. I have to make the most of what IS.

God in the gaps is the philosophy of ignorance. Believers have a hard time accepting that some things we don't know yet and some things we will never know. Saying it is therefore proof of a god is saying we should stop looking. Nonsense.

Just because we don't fully know or understand something doesn't mean that their isn't a rational explanation. Humans can't stand not knowing so some tend to make up they're own explanation.

I don't mind supernatural explanations. To me they fill the gap until we have a scientific explanation. For example, there is still no understanding of what happens inside black holes. There are so many unanswered questions.

"There is a tendency, even in this forum, to attribute anything science cannot at this moment explain to supernatural forces."

This is not a true statement regarding AG members. There are a few outliers, but by and large, that is not at all common in this forum.

It's just an argument from ignorance.

This is the first I've heard of this "God-of-the-Gaps" you speak of.
Interesting, and I can see how it has been true in many cases, certainly in the past. God was a huge part of society and might also have been an easy way out.
I suspect, though, that it's not an acceptable answer or explanation now.
Not that I do a lot of scientific research, (though I was a research assistant for some time) I've never used god to fill in any gaps. If I (or our team) didn't know how to explain something, we simply stated that we didn't know, and looked into it further. We may not have found the answer, but we knew for certain there was one, and it wasn't "god".
Perhaps as a lark, we would say "Magic", but it was a joke and we all knew it was a joke.
Never once did any of us ever say, in a non-sarcastic manner "it's like that because God make it that way".

I haven't noticed that here, and I'm on here way to fucking much!

I was fortunate that I was brought up in a household, and school where there was not real mention of god, or religion. I was taught at an early age the value of using the Scientific method for learning anything.

For the most part that was apparent in the way my classes went from Math, to History, to Chemistry, and every thing in between. They didn't just give us a book, told to read a chapter, memorize it then take a test one it. That I believe is probably the worst way to teach someone.

Instead, they would give us a topic, or a problem to solve, to do the experiments to get our own findings. then present them. Which to me was the best way I could think of to get children to learn, to actually go and test, or research for ourselves. Even if we were wrong in our findings, there was the experiencing of learning from ours or others. Even better, we learned to question everything, never assume.

I don't know how or why most school systems don't do that any more, but it is very frustrating to see the decline in many people that can not even comprehend critical thinking.
And with this being the so called 'information age'.I see it get mis-used way too much.

With the ability to have virtually learn every thing there is to learn with a few clicks of a mouse.
But instead, way too many would rather just post a picture af a cat that says something funny on facebook, and then wait for the 50 'likes' that follow.

Even worse, a lot of times I will see people not having a sense of critical thinking will give the same weight to a paper written by someone with a Doctorate, as they would from some conspiracy theory nut job living in their moms basement.

Sorry for the long rant, this topic just strikes a sore nerve with me.

I have not noticed such a tendency, and it certainly does not exist on my part.

As an actual scientist who is willing to chime in on the subject, the answer for something that is unknown is simple. It consists of three words. Well, one is a contraction so I suppose it should be four words. We don't know. No extrapolation is needed and filling the hole with anything other than genuine knowledge is a monument to human foolishness, otherwise known as the god-of-the-gaps argument, which is not an argument by any stretch of the imagination. It is and has been used because people don't handle uncertainty well at all. That is the driving force behind moral objectivism, too. Absolute anything is better than not knowing or relying on our own wit.

What is worse is that there is a silent, tacit acceptance of this non-argument that tends to lend it credence. It is long past due that this kind of nonsense (polite for bullshit) be called out each and every time it arises. I know, it smacks of militant behavior, but it is time we take an active role in clearing out the woo locker.

EDIT FOR ADDITIONAL NOTE: It should be borne in mind that BioLogos is a Christian advocacy group and that Deborah Haarsma and her husband are both bathed in woo. Where it is a source of dismay that trained scientists like Deborah can be so deeply entrenched in their beliefs, it is not surprising. The guru at AIG is also a trained 'actual' scientist who has some rather unique ideas about how discrepancies in the bible regarding biblical collisions with astronomical knowns can be explained. Here he is at his best:

A nice exposition of the God-of-the-gaps fallacy.

There’s no such thing as the supernatural. There is however the part of nature that we can not understand with our space/time/matter model. Also there are deep, deep questions whose answers are probably unknowable. In that sense nature is all “supernatural”, and the part that we can detect, which we call the physical, we see only dimly, crudely, and indirectly.

The spirit of science is to forge ahead into the unknown, to pounce greedily on new thoughts and ideas. A lot of people seem to think that science is all about stifling discussion of ideas that don’t fit the established scientific world view, and debunking anomalous evidence.

Actually I believe that humanity's need to answer, currently unanswerable questions is specifically the driving force behind our scientific advancement.

How many things has humanity taken as an answer until someone stepped in and figured out it was bullshit? Not just with religion, the medical field has for a long time had ideas that were off base and once someone came along and figured it out it was widely accepted.

I'd say that without the need to find those answers, we'd have neither religion, nor the actual answers we've been yearning for.