Just so. It’s called confirmation bias.
Yes. Or " I lack the knowledge, imagination or wit to think of anything else, therefore god (or aliens) did it" I think that’s also called ‘god of the gaps’
Seems to me that very few people ever seriously question the beliefs and world view they absorbed uncritically, before the age of seven. I agree that many do not want to know, terrified of being jolted out of their complacency. Common in religion, politics and (in Australia at least) sports.
Religious faith, formed without actually knowing cannot survive even casual scrutiny using reason and facts.
Simple question, avoiding the existence of god; Why is there evil and suffering? Watch them squirm.