It's been suggested by some scientists that a propensity to religious belief is actually in our genes. Nearly all peoples in history have been religious.
Now there seems to be more conviction about that, as reported in the article, "Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that's not a joke," on website Science 2.0:
"In the US, only 20 per cent of people have no religious affiliation, but of these, only one in ten say they are atheists."
“A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,” writes Pascal Boyer in Nature, the science journal, adding that people “are only aware of some of their religious ideas”.
Philosophical materialists (who believe that only the material world exists, so there's no supernatural) view this as an evolutionary development because religiosity benefits society.
We who are super-naturalists and Christians have a different view. We think that God designed us to seek and experience Him.
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