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Originally Posted by Nedusa

If you take ALL THE people in the World that believe in some form of higher existence and a Deity of some description and pit them against avid non believers then the proportions are quite overwhelming.

But they all believe different things, sometimes wildly different things, and can't all possibly be right. Even if you argue it's possible that one of those groups is right... Most of them are wrong. And if most of them are wrong then it becomes perfectly feasible (in my opinion, probable) that ALL of them are wrong, even if there is a nondescript higher power of some form.

Chances of there being some sort of intelligent creative force? We don't know anywhere near enough about the universe to state either way, so you could call it 50/50. Chances of ANY organised religion having stumbled upon the absolute truth in a universe of near infinite possibility? Miniscule. Miniscule to the point of being effectively zero.

90% or more of the Worlds population believe in something so there must be something in our DNA that hard wires us to believe there is more.

There is. It's called survival instinct. Fear of death is a huge part of what keeps us risk averse and allows us to keep on living. We can't live forever, but we are inclined to wait to believe that we will continue to exist in some form after death.