Theologically, you're still stuck with the God of the Gaps, and scientifically, you're confusing the unexplained with the unexplainable. One of the strengths of Tower of Babel is that it specifically addresses these existential issues. A theist himself, Pennock presents a particularly thoughtful discussion of why neither science nor evolution renders life meaningless. Polls show that close to half of Americans prefer Genesis-type special creation of humans over human evolution. In an excellent analogy for such Americans, Pennock invokes the biblical Tower of Babel, where God specially created the many different languages of humankind.
Most religious people can accept language evolution.
Although languages are used by intelligent humans, languages change not by design or human planning but according to rules that only recently are becoming understood. His Own Home Pennock also uses the Tower of Babel as a metaphor to describe the confusion and squabbling among antievolutionists themselves, detailing the nuances of intelligent-design creationists, young earthers, old earthers, progressive creationists and others. Intelligent-design creationists try to keep the peace by avoiding any specific empirical claim about what the designer might have done, relying instead on bashing evolution. The Supreme Court held in Edwards that teachers may teach secular and scientific alternatives to evolution, but intelligent-design creationism fails on both counts. Continental drift, punctuated equilibrium and quantum theory had to be accepted by the scholarly community before being taught at the high school level, and this is the task for intelligent design.