Sorry Bill, perhaps I shouldn't have used hypothesis. I was referring back to.

"I think it IS important to confront the questions Jon asks as honestly and precisely as possible......and I ask Jon (and others) a further rhetorical question: What if it was discovered (*never mind that it can't BE discovered*) that the Universe just *is*, with NO creator and no basis for behavior other than pragmatism & self-preservation?"

I think the God and his chariot, etc. stemmed from there.