Many people decry the notion of a "God of the gaps."  What is a God of the gaps?  It is a God whom believers allegedly use to fill in the blank spaces of scientific knowledge, a God who, when all the available information does not answer a question fully, seems to do so.
     At first glance, yes, a God of the gaps seems like a crutch, a haven to which a believer might go if she cannot address a particular scientific or metaphysical issue.  Viewed in this light, well, it certainly is.  We all know that many questions about earthly processes and cosmological origins linger.  We all know that we may not ever be able to answer all of them.  We therefore err if we try to impose God as a solution to the former or too quickly use him as an antidote to the latter.  We do not wish to think that if we have pushed ourselves to our epistemological limits and still wonder about them then we should simply insert God as our response.
     We do well rather to hold out God as a framework, a set of possibilities and outcomes, a fact and presence encompassing and grounding our queries.  God is there, yes, but we are, too, and have every responsibility to continue our explorations.  Indeed, if God is working in the world and in our lives, and if he is indeed present in all things, we can proceed being confident in the meaningfulness and worth of our investigations.  We do not need a God of the gaps.  Rather, we need a God who is meaningful.  If God is indeed meaningful, so is everything else, regardless of whether we perceive to be so.
     Question, examine, and question and examine again.  At the end of the day, God will still be there.