Religious people are NOT "born believers," landmark study reveals

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33. There was almost no debate in the pre-scientific era

At least as long as there has been writing, God or gods were the quick and easy answers to everything from creation to warts, but through science we have the real answers to many of those things and no evidence that divinities played any part of it. Hence the modern debate. But we aren't even talking about the same God anymore. In ancient and medieval times, gods were active and real forces, they created the heavens, they got angry they made it rain, they caused disease, and could be propitiated by prayer. Now that we know these things are actions of physics and biology, God has become an abstract thing of pure spirit that at best interacts with the world in some secret and forever undetectable manner or maybe a blind clockmaker who hasn't touched his creation for 13.7 billion years.