politicophile

Well, I don't think its accurate to refer to the God hypothesis as "right" in this situation. It strikes me as similar to the following two statements:

"George Allen is the 44th President of the United States."

"I do not know who is the 44th President of the United States."

Now, it seems odd to say that the first statement is "right", despite the fact that it could potentially be true. Similarly, in the absence of sufficient evidence, it is odd to claim that X caused the creation of life on Earth, even if X is a potentially true explanation...

__________________
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty