If God is an answer to a scientific question, God is also subject to scientific inquiry. So if God is the answer to the origin of life, what exactly does it explain. And more importantly what explains God, otherwise God is just a Deus ex Machina and you don't necessarily need him in your theory. You could just as well stop explaining before God pops up. This is Ockham's Razor, you can incorporate the complete works of Shakespeare into any theory, it doesn't make it any more or less right, but it does make it a hell of a lot more complicated, without explaining anything more. So what's the use?
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If God is an answer to a scientific question, God is also subject to scientific inquiry. So if God is the answer to the origin of life, what exactly does it explain. And more importantly what explains God, otherwise God is just a Deus ex Machina and you don't necessarily need him in your theory. You could just as well stop explaining before God pops up. This is Ockham's Razor, you can incorporate the complete works of Shakespeare into any theory, it doesn't make it any more or less right, but it does make it a hell of a lot more complicated, without explaining anything more. So what's the use?