It takes a whole lot more faith to be an atheist than a Christian. I don't have as much faith to believe there isn't a God as they do.
That really says it in a nutshell. Steven Hawkins in "Space and Time" said we don't need a creator to explain why the universe is so finely adjusted to have matter (let's not even begin to try and explain life yet). He said all we need is an infinite number of naturally occurring random universes and we (obviously) happen to be in the one that can support us.
I'm with you-- it takes a lot less work to believe in a Creator. Then again, maybe other people have more faith than we do.