So part of my questioning is where do persons vary on where god influences?
I know I'm isolating this quote a bit, and is something that goes back a few pages, but it also seems to be recurring inquiry.
For me, the God influence in this world comes in terms of forgiveness.
I think that will be seen as "having nothing to do" with the Creationist / Evolutionist topic that is intrinsic to this thread. In my understanding, there is direct correlation, though would take awhile and would very likely be different tangents than Creationists arguments that I am familiar with.
I will say, that forgiveness is an illusion that greatly aids in escaping the fundamental illusion that we are, here in this universe, separate from God (aka our Creator).
I don't wish to proselytize (too much) here. I would just say that in understanding this, it is necessary to put away old school interpretations on many things, not the least of which is forgiveness. You essentially are forgiving you're own self for what amounts to an attack on God, but a) God (of my understanding) doesn't see it as attack and b) until the fundamental error is truly forgiven (that I am separate from God), it will, IMX, show up as forgiveness of "others" and have next to nothing to do with Creator.
I believe I understand the fundamental error intellectually, I am still working on correcting it in terms of experience.
I wish to reiterate that this really really does relate, for me, to what I read in OP and is ongoing discussion in this this thread, though I recognize we (humanity) are having a whole other side discussion that makes the one I am bringing up, seem incompatible to "god of gaps" rhetoric.
God's not hiding, period.
He sure has fooled a lot of us if he is right in front of us.
I find it foolish to not look within. "In front of us" is a non sequitur if understanding fundamental error (belief in separation).
I have asked many times elsewhere, where is the objective evidence for the physical, with the stipulation that you / we cannot use physical senses as part of "objective" proof? Leaps of logic are made in this establishment, which I assert ultimately rests on faith. And yet, I don't care to dispute this, as I'm okay with idea I am in a body (now). But I cannot provide objective evidence of this.
I will also just add that scientific explanation, more often than not, is telling us what and how, and rarely why. Why can be more challenging especially when having awareness of what is behind that sort of inquiry. But why can be had, and science generally doesn't do this, in way that works for me. This doesn't mean I don't think scientific research and practice is "bad." It does mean I look to alternative explanations, i.e. theosophy or art for the why that works for me. Perhaps not 100%, but enough of the time.