I'm inclined to agree that it's insulting to compare god to the tooth fairy. When I was a kid I would put the tooth I had lost that day under my pillow, and there would be money in its place when I woke up. That's more evidence than anyone's ever been able to muster for god.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell