God hypothesis

English

Proper noun

God hypothesis

1. 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, 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, 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.