[jennyp]

Jenny, I know you didn’t miss my point – you are ignoring my point.

Yes, I am aware of the “God of the gaps” theory, but the “godless filling the those gaps” requires more faith. (I believe)

I'm sorry, I thought it was you who had said:

Atheism requires an active belief system. Since no absolute evidence refutes God’s existence, one is required to reject (and reject and reject). A belief without absolute facts requires faith. Does your faith and belief make it true?

This doesn't seem to be saying anything about the God of the Gaps per se. You seem to be saying here that someone who has a negative claim ("I don't believe God/unicorns exist") is the one who "requires an active belief system". This is clearly untrue. The person who makes the positive claim ("I believe God/unicorns exist") is the one who has to have some positive evidence to hang on to; otherwise they need to continually generate some kind of faith to sustain their belief.

[Heartlander]

OK Jenny, maybe pictures will help…

FIG A: Philosophical naturalism as exemplified in the Hard Facts Wall from the California Academy of Sciences exhibit in San Francisco, CA Life Through Time: The Evidence for Evolution

FIG B: Fossil data applied to the philosophical framework of Fig A. (Hard Facts Wall from the California Academy of Sciences exhibit in San Francisco, CA Life Through Time: The Evidence for Evolution)

FIG C: Empirical data of the Hard Facts Wall after removal of materialistic philosophy with Occam's razor.

FIG D: LIFE THROUGH TIME: Framework for theory of Macrostasis based upon the pervasive patterns of natural history. "Stasis is data." -- Stephen Jay Gould, "Opus 200," Natural History, August 1991, p. 16

FIG I: The origin of the phyla: the fossil evidence

Contrary to both Darwinian gradualism and punctuated equilibria theory, the vast majority of phyla appear abruptly with low species diversity. The disparity of the higher taxa precedes the diversity of the lower taxa.