I’ve always wondered if the reasons for abandoning skepticism when it comes to God (in whatever form he/she/it is understood) is a lot simpler than we think it is.
Chimpanzees–evidentally–practice religion . . . or, at least what is to religion that their use of chewed twigs for obtaining tasty termites is to our idea of technology.
Chimps seem to worship waterfalls, and they bring sacrificial offerings to trees . . . which they seem to see as idols.
Even today, Japanese Shintoists have public shrines at waterfalls and natural glades that are believed to be the homes of nature spirits.
So, my ultimate point is that God and religion must be hardwired into the neural circuitry of the brain. We believe in God–despite a lack of evidence of God’s existence–for the same reason why we go into “fight or flight mode” when our boss at work reprimands us . . . despite the fact that a rapid heart rate and rising blood pressure won’t resolve the problem in the way that it resolves the problem for our ancestors when they had to escape leopards and hyenas.