Just to be clear, I’m agnostic, and so not religious at all, but if there is indeed some entity or phenomenon out there that we call God, for lack of a better mathematical or physical description, He will in all probability reside in those vast, indefinable layers of the immeasurable, not in our silly little Unified Theory. It is not that God keeps retreating to ever smaller ‘gaps’, it is that it’s likely that what we’ve discovered or what we can discover in toto is so narrow relative to the complexity of reality that it is monumentally inadequate to the task of even beginning to describe what has been called God. Our models are just unbelievably, outrageously pathetic, as are those who think detailed knowledge of these models represents a transcendent state of being and a new order of intelligence. Since there is so much room for God in what can never be mathematically described or observed, speculation about that realm, His realm –- otherwise known as philosophy and religion –- becomes the only tool available to understand it and thus such speculation is entirely rational. In fact, in the end, speculation (religion) has always been and will always be an attempt to rationally order the universe, even when it’s wrong. I should say that again, since it’s an important point: Religious explanations and philosophical speculations have always been and are still rational acts in that they are attempts to explain the unexplainable. After all, it’s not like human beings have a superior cognitive ability now relative to human beings who lived 2000 or 10000 years ago — it’s more probable that we are really not all that much closer now to understanding the true nature of reality than when we started throwing rocks at the moon. In short, it’s those spiritual religious and moralizing philosophical types who are closer to the truth than the scientists, for the simple reason that they instinctively recognize, without benefit of university science or math classes, that the quantity of that which cannot be quantified is probably far, far greater than that which has already been quantified, or can be.
Wouldn’t it be ironic, and elegant, if this instinctive awareness of our own inadequacy were a necessary first step to understanding reality as it is, not as we would like it to be? If this is correct, it was not the caveman throwing rocks at the moon who had it entirely wrong, it’s the contemporary physicists and mathematicians throwing Higgs bosons and Hammerhoff q-consciousness models at impossibly complex reality who have it wrong, or more accurately, grossly, ridiculously, irredeemably incomplete. Ironic indeed.
(By the way, there’s obviously still a lot more discovering to do, for many thousands of years probably (it doesn’t really matter, it won’t be 200 trillion years). I don’t see the harm in amusing ourselves with Higgs bosons. One’s got to do SOMETHING with one’s life, eh? And these kinds of discoveries are just damned cool …. 
