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All he has to do is go to the courts and ask for a paternity test. Once it has been established that you are not the biological father, and he is, yes he will have parental rights.
You would have had to adopt the child in order to be the legal guardian/parent. The birth certificate is nothing more than a falsified document, since you knew that you were not the biological father when you signed it. If the father wants to push this and go to court, he will win, he still has parental rights to the child.
While it can seem threatening for the absent parent to waltz back into the child's life, perhaps he will be a good influence...sometimes it takes people quite a while to wake up and realize that they are a parent.
You could try starting with quick visits, meeting at McDonalds for lunch or so, to ease him back into the child's life.
If the biological father would not be a good influence on the child's life, then you could try for a stepparent adoption, but he would still have to agree to that.
If he is going to push the issue, the easiest thing would be to try to get along and allow him into the child's life. If he wants to be there, he is going to find a way to do it, and fighting that will only cause pain to your family.
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