GUEST (or one of them) said:


well, whatever the human race couldn't explain it called God, beginning with the Sun. So now we're down to the microscopically microscopic and we still call it God. But that's only because we don't yet fully understand it. When we do, we'll call something else God.

This is a pretty good statement of what is sometimes theologically called "The god of the margins".   The unexplained margins of the world are essentially dismissed, tagged with the word "god". As actual knowlege grows, the margins available to be so relegated grow smaller.

Dave Oesterreich