> What will happen if, at a time when the world and all its population are endowed with nanites perpetually monitoring our physical and mental processes, it becomes possible to falsify all the things that we presently identify as works of God within the world? What will happen if natural causes are identified for previously unaccountable healings? For visions and foreknowledge of events? For circumstances which are so coincidental that they give the appearance of divine direction?
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> "God of the gaps" is the name given to the belief that God operates in anything that cannot be understood rationally. What happens when the last gaps are closed, allowing we, or our nanites, to "see" exactly how everything takes place, and the weight of evidence supports the view that "amazing" things are not so amazing after all -- it was only a matter of insufficient data? What then for the faithful? Part of the fear of science, where it still exists, must no doubt be fear of what the truth may turn out to be.

This is really the idea of science as the opponent of spirituality, and the assumption that they are rivals in the same sphere where only one can be true. This has probably always been a human concept, but I don't see the relationship myself.
At this time in history, we know a staggering number of natural causes for previously unexplainable phenomena. I don't think that an amazing thing becomes any less amazing - or spiritual - when you know all the reasons behind it. It may become even more so.
I can look at the sun shining through leaves and feel awe for God's work, whether or not I know about chlorophyll, photosynthesis, reactions within the sun, or the process by which solar radiation crosses space to reach the tree outside my window. If I stop and consider these things, I usually feel more awe, not less, at the complexity of the world.
I have spent the last two days trying to get through one single chapter on field theory, and have currently given up and gone back to adventure novels. Apart from learning that I don't have the right sort of mind to cope with quantum physics, I learned that the structure of nature is even more amazing than I previously thought. Personally, I am not particularly searching for God, but I think that those who are, are just as likely to find his presence in the motion of subatomic particles as in accounts of ancient miracles.

Brunnen-"fairly sure somebody already said all that in a previous debate"G