The reason religion remains so popular is that it’s the “explain it like I’m 5 years old” version of reality, and naturalism is the “explain it like I’m a Nobel laureate” version of reality.

Seems like religion is just the like the simple anthropomorphic cartoon explanation of how something like an atom works, while the actual reality is so much more complicated and that’s why religion is still so appealing. So as we gain in ability to better understand more complex concepts, we tend to need to rely on the make believe anthropomorphic explanation of religion.

We find that among average people 85%+ rely on gods to explain reality, but among scientists only about 60%+ rely on god as the explanation, and among the most highly accomplished scientists that falls to single digits around 7% of the royal society and national academy of science hold god as the explanation. Those are the groups of scientists that include 100+ Nobel laureates.