Is this not the circle-jerk which spins on frictionless bearings? (so favored in all elementary physics test problems.) The God-debate surely er, Christ-ened the accretion of IWE, in those bucolic years before the Shogunate's War on All Wisdom (and most just-plain Goodness.) But it keeps coming baaaack.

It's not about cerebral induction/deduction. NPR today: an OCD-guy on Fresh Air, wrote book re his own obsessive compulsion disorder, has studied same (as well as the studiers.) At geek-level etc. He be as 'rational' as my own nit-pickery levels can discern. Has made some progress, but.. it lurks still.
Not saying these afflicted are equivalent to the religious impetus, but we are still in infancy about brain-mapping and in even worse ignorance re consciousness, (IMO the #1 unanswerable riddle, via any mere logic.)

Further, there are esoteric levels where most religios never venture (look at all the Christians who never read enough Bible to See the effects of homo-sap tinkering, invention and the n Contradictions as resulted.) These care-not about such Referents as [The Absolute] nor would these comprehend (nor care to try) what it means to say, The Absolute is without attributes (as means: you could not possibly imagine What such an Overview would entail.) Forget yer anthropomorphic, gendered==hoary-old-Men.

But you Can postulate the existence of [Absolute], without wishful thinking or projection: "IT" was present "before!" T=0, in that: our local cosmology; equally so in the Steady-state-eternal previous model. That there is mathematics (all those processes) does not follow from any random thought-events: 'Laws' are 'Legislated'. We only discover them: whence came the Legislator(s)?

So the millions are all un-read amateurs (or worse: stuck in childhood) at the religio trade: just running on early-rote inculcation, which was quite enough. At age 5. Only they stayed there. And will.
(The real 'Arrested Development'? near species-wide), though the silliest are closing shop. Crap shoot.

(To me the longest running Cosmic-joke remains our total inability to comprehend consciousness: its origins, its How?s let alone Why?s), nor can we see Information Theory explain the presence of 'thought-bits?' without which: there would be nothing to communicate. (Let alone: how/why mathematics came to create/or-reveal itself.) Those are just a few.. of the unKnowable Questions which persist, will do so unless/until consciousness-itself creates that New-level which AE referred to in, Problems created at one level of thinking ... ... That was a metaphysical statement, by definition. AE's thoughts on 'god' were all worth parsing, I thought. He certainly eschewed the im-person-ation shtick.

We grok the physics of the material aspects of this goldfish bowl, each principle being testable. As to the realm of the conscious mind, the Reality of (or not) of thought-creation and all the rest: those demand many more Answers than the Big Bang brings to the table. We who 'do Science' fall into an easy conceit, in believing (at all levels of sci. education) that, our efforts are necessary of pursuit (for being incomplete) and: its method is all ye need to know to finally get a glimpse of Reality. That view almost-defines 'Western culture', no?

Ergo: religiosity shall never go away; it cannot be slain via rules of the physical universe, just as [Reality] utterly escapes representation--thus far--in the mental realms: as are also "in Existence: in any full-Cosmology" worth trying to map.
(And the impulse Shouldn't disappear.. at least not to any who crave to get near as possible to Truthiness ABOUT that "complete-Cosmos.") I wot. Why settle for the piker's version of the Game, just because it's popular because so easy.