But what good is it to unify our knowledge and our thought according to an erroneous model? It just serves to sink one deeper in untruth.
I always find it curious that in denying, or remaining willfully blind to human nature, the deniers end up denying themselves without seeming to notice it.
Man is primed for God. As you say, God made him that way. The whole history of mankind attests to this fact, except for the history of the past two centuries, which evidences the trend of the intelligentsia towards the establishment of a totally man-centered universe. But you cannot establish that by fiat, especially if it completely cuts against the grain of what it is to be human.
The Huxleys of this world in effect proudly declare themselves to have "evolved" into a higher state of humanity. I tend to think they have devolved into a state that is less-than-human. For one of the supposed benefits of being more evolved than the other guy is that one has an excuse to devalue the dignity and humanity of the other guy. The eugenics movement, in arrogating to itself the judgment of which humans are greater or less "fit," enables them to tyrannize the "less fit." The historical record speaks plainly enough on this matter.
LOL, so I guess you may be right, dear 'pipe: "Atheists then must be under evolved."
That's simply replacing on religion with another, but those who are doing so refuse to acknowledge what they're doing and have managed to convince (brainwash) a great many people somehow, that trusting in *science* is somehow better; more sane, more rational, more reasonable that believing in a god.
Actually, all men have faith, it's just a matter of what they put it in. Those who wish to reject God have simply replaced Him with science and/or *reason*. It takes faith in the system, that it will always work as it has, even though they have no reason to expect it except precedent- *it always has before*. And it takes trust that the practitioners are reliable and the system set up by those practitioners is accurate and reliable.
It is simply another system of beliefs; a religion or philosophy.