God of the Gaps/Finding God in What We Know

This is cited from an Answers.com article on God of the Gaps

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said

"...how wrong it is to use God 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 God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know. God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved.(1) and (2)



(1) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997 (ISBN 978-0-684-83827-4) "Letter to Eberhard Bethge", 29 May 1944, pages 310-312.

(2) The last sentence comes from this talk at Calvin College's Christian Perspectives in Science Seminar Series.