Existence brings natural questions of origin. That is one of the primary objectives of scientific research. It baffles me that a simplistic series of fables is still accepted as fact by so much of the world's population!
Most baffling is that "God" is seen by so many as a personified being...usually with a bipolar personality.
It makes much more sense to me to consider "Mother Nature" as a deity...not as a literal being, but as the sum total of existence including physical laws. "She" is the gift we were all given to share at birth.
Mentally substituting "Mother Nature" for "God" has helped me be less disagreeable with friends who have been assimilated into the Borg that is religion.
Thoughts?
You have to understand a fundamental characteristic of science, both as it was in archaic human society, and how it is in modern society. Science -and indeed most fields of study- have developed far beyond most people’s ability to grasp intuitively. Think about it. In the span of a few hundred years, we've gone from a state where the sum total of acquired human knowledge could be assimilated within a lifetime (with reasonable effort of course), to the present condition where an expert can spend her entire life laser-focused on her narrow field of study and still not have attained a complete catalogue of all knowledge currently available in that area. This conundrum increases exponentially when you expand your view to the whole of human knowledge.
As a most basic example, flat-earth seems like complete lunacy until you remember that it took the acquisition of thousands of years of counterintuitive knowledge to get us to that point. Nothing in your experience of walking out your front door every day points toward anything BUT a flat earth.
And since sunlight is necessary for the photosynthesis on which all life depends directly or indirectly, wouldn't it make the most sense to worship Ra if one had a serious need to worship something?
Actually, considering that we've found life at mid-ocean vents that have never experienced sunlight, all that is necessary, it seems, is water and the right mix of chemicals and heat.