The difference between scientific assumptions and apologetic ones is the former then go on to test those assumptions; while the latter write "QED" on theirs and send them out into the creationist rumour mill, where they get sent round over and over again with zero fact-checking.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'