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Check out the work of psychologist Bruce Hood in his book Supersense, From Superstition to Religion - the Brain Science of Belief (2009). His thesis, which is not new, is that our intuition can't help but generate superstitious or supernatural explanations, because its part of our evolutionary or survival baggage.
So rationality and naturalistic explanations don't come naturally (ironically).
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