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that God... sorry, I keep doing that. It is possible that an Intelligent Designer created the world in six days 6,000 years ago, a millennium or so after the wheel was invented. It is possible that He or She fixed it so that everything looked like it was much older, that the Earth would appear to be close to a million times more ancient, that distant stars would appear to be just the right distance away, that a bunch of dinosaurs inexplicably omitted from the Bible would show up from time to time to fool people - sure, it's possible. It's just not science.

Unlike the claims some make about the bible (a book with, I have to point out, a talking snake in), no-one believes that science knows everything - except perhaps non-scientists looking for a straw man to demolish. It doesn't follow that God lives in the gaps. If there comes a time where evidence of a Creator is so strong that that hypothesis has more predictive power than the body of thought built up over the last few millennia (largely despite, rather than due to, religion) then scientists will accept that theory. That hypothesis, however, currently doesn't predict anything at all testable and is thus useless as science.

And that's why God doesn't show up in many scientific papers.

* Saying that gaps in the fossil record invalidate evolution is much like saying time doesn't exist between ticks of your digital watch.

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