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When you capitalize "God", I assume you're talking about the Chrisitan God of the Bible. Such a hypothesis about his existence might be: "If God exists, random misfortunes won't happen to those who are faithful to him." The null hypothesis would be "if God doesn't exist, misfortunes will happen at random, to believers and non-believers alike." Since that's largely the case, we can accept the null hypothesis: God doesn't exist.
(If you're response is "maybe God just doesn't care", that's fine, but that's moving the goalposts. The God of the Bible would care, and that's the God we were talking about.)
Aha, but for many of us Christians, we have had God "answer our prayers", and had our lives transformed by God. Now that hypothesis, of course, isn't exactly 'suitable'. In fact, for many Christians, their lives have been made all the harder for their belief; however having experienced God's love and forgiveness, and God's strength persevere.
Many of us, from life experiences, have concluded that God does exist; not from philosophical or theological arguments.
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