I think there is a more fundamental reason to believe in God other than it helps to explain the unknown. The strongest reason to believe in God is as a coping mechanism to deal with the certainty of death. No one wants to believe everything they do in their life is meaningless since it will all be lost at the moment of death. I think a strong motivator for scientists who have no religious beliefs is that their contributions to their field will give them a sort of immortality, or in the case of some AGI researches, literally believe their work will bring them immortality. Not that I am saying the idea of a Singularity is necessarily a religious one, but it certainly does ignite the yearning to transcend death, which has been a common theme in every religious tradition.
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