I am a scientist who is not an atheist, but also accepts evolution as the best explanation for the origin of species. The movie Expelled presents a false “God of the gaps” argument for creationism wherein gaps in our knowledge are filled with “God did it”, instead of the more rational explanation that we have not discovered everything yet needed to fill the gaps in our knowledge. I temporarily lost my faith as a teenager when confronted with fundamentalists who insisted that one could not both believe in God and evolution. I regained my faith in college in a required Old Testament course where more liberal theology was explained. Blame the fundamentalists and their rigid, literal interpretations of the Bible for the rise of atheism in our society.
