Religion can't really explain things though. If I say a floating jellyfish did it all, and we are too stupid to ever know why, that doesn't give any clarity.

Tim Minchin has a great line about this in one of his songs[1]

'Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved'

[1] https://youtu.be/HhGuXCuDb1U

The answer being “god” is not useful. You can’t use it to predict or measure (people have certainly tried for millennia) phenomena therefore it isn’t worthy of discussion outside the purely philosophical.

That's because it violates Occam's razor. That doesn't disprove the existence of a God, of course, but it makes it less likely if you accept Occam's razor to some degree.

The reason it violates Occam's razor is because it is the strongest possible axiom you can include in a system. Why does anything happen? Because God. That's not a very interesting theory in that it can predict anything without offering any reasons or insights.

Not to mention, we have no direct observational evidence of such an entity.

You're right. I'm also amazed how the Magic Unicorn hypothesis seems to not exist amongst the modern, smart tech world. It's hard to imagine why they ignore us.

> I’m amazed how the God hypothesis seems to not exist amongst the modern, smart tech world.

God is not a hypothesis, but more of an theory in the analytical rather than scientific sense. That is, God is a conceptual framework by through which other information is interpreted, not a source of testable predictions.

The revelations about God come with a lot of baggage that is harmful to science. It’s no wonder people want to slam the door on it.