What is heaven?

[pocaracas]

Why is the origin of life considered a "gap"? I say it's a huge canyon. It means science can't explain a huge, fundamental question. Calling it a "gap" is like pretending science can answer a question that it can't. The reality is that it's the type of knowledge gap/canyon that problematizes the entire conception that the universe and existence is a self-generating phenomenon and that life can be reduced to purely chemical phenomenon.

Science can't explain yet.... but really, I once read an article sponsored by the Vatican where the mechanism of creating life, by solely chemical processes is presented... found it!
My Scientific Discussions of Evolution for the Pope and His Scientists.

Next point: That doesn't "prove God exists." Gaps, and even canyons, in scientific knowledge don't prove anything except maybe something about the limits of scientific knowledge.

Correction: the present limits of scientific knowledge.
Presently, we can't explain something, but who knows about the future?
Hundreds of years ago, people believed that lightning was created by the gods; volcanoes were started by other gods; floods were sent by yet other gods, etc... science has shortened that gap in knowledge... it's not a closed gap, yet, but maybe it will be. Why keep putting gods in there when so much that was once believe to be their territory has been disproved?

The point is more like this: There isn't a clear atheistic answer for the origin of life. There are guesses, hopes, dreams, speculations - not answers. There's a clear theistic answer for the origin of life. Why automatically push a theistic answer off the table when atheists don't have a better one?

Because it's not a satisfactory answer. It's an answer that arises from ignorance. "I don't know, hence god-did-it". If everyone acted like this, the world would be a crappy one.. no tech, no science, no discovery, no adventure, no knowledge... just god-did-it.