As most larger religions are based on scriptures going back between one and three thousand years, and accepting them as written to be trying to make sense of the world they observed, the God hypothesis really was the science of the day.

The issue here is one of tradition. As we get better at questioning what we observed, if became obvious that the God explanation became less satisfactory. However by this time too many people found other uses for God, especially when used for social control, hence Galileo's trial, the ridiculing of Darwin and the various geographic locations of Dumbfuckistan.

I have no issue in calling the cloud of what we don't understand yet God, as it has to be called something and that term has suited for a hell of a long time. But I have no hang ups with this God file getting thinner as time and knowledge move forward.

Sadly, many would get their way and control others by stuffing the God file with more documents.

In a world where people scream for religious equality but are actually wanting religious privilege, poor old science has to carry forward without laughing too much eh?