Reply #18: It's a combination of "god of the gaps" and bizaro hyper-skepticism

[Ediacara]

In the past, god used to occupy the entire unknown world of phenomena, but as science progressed, god got shoved out of areas like lightening, and eclipses etc. One could easily (and probably correctly) assume that as science continues to progress god will get shoved out of all other phenomona. The IDers insist there is some sort of god-threshold though; some point at which god can no longer be shoved, a certain amount of gaps that god must exist within. There is of course no data for this other than wishful thinking and appeals to emotion. A very small amount of extrapolation however, and god of the gaps will finally give up the ghost (and I don't mean to imply that science will kill god, just that god as the personal author of observable phenomena will be killed).

BUT, IDers (ironically) can't stand the small amount of extrapolation to kill god of the gaps, and employ some radical form of hyperskepticism to defend their undefendable views, aparently unaware that belief in a god is something that should be approached with genuine hyperskepticism....