Yes Bill D, folks do sometimes try to fill in the gaps with God and it's kinda like using bubblegum where a rivet is needed. If that is one's approach, their "God" is going to lose ground all day long in the face of advancing science.

Depending on how we define terms such things as righteousness and justice get codified and start looking pretty scientific but in complete analysis they are still metaphysical concepts. What makes something "right'? or "just"? Because it helps someone? Because it conforms to someone's or some people's idea of fair? Manifest Destiny seemed pretty righteous to a lot of erstwhile white Europeans; Indians be damned. We are just as sure we have the right fix on things today as those guys did almost 200 years ago. The moral dictums that stem from some religions have a timelessness and a universality that transcends our history. Of course you can argue the point but to many it is an indication that a moral code superior to anything of a given group of people may embrace, is at work.

The Apostle Paul says it this way. I paraphrase: "God has written His law upon the tablets of the hearts of men." Poetic but you get the point.

By the by, I am, among other things, an amateur astronomer and I relish the concepts of astrophysics and quantum mechanics. I find no conflict with how I perceive God. Science does nothing but discover how He did it!