The hypothesis that God exists, seen as something able to be analyzed by a scientific approach rather than accepted by faith.
1977,Frank Jackson,Perception: A Representative Theory, CUP Archive, ISBN 9780521215503, page 144:
Moreover, no one (including Price) would dream of reading a paper to a scientific society arguing that the God hypothesis is superior to the Molecular theory of gases.
2003,Lewis Vaughn, Austin Dacey,The Case for Humanism: An Introduction, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 9780742513938, page 172:
When the God hypothesis is evaluated with a more plausible conception of conservatism, it seems to conflict with, among other things, scientific data suggesting that the universe is uncaused.