Cognitive scientists hold that theism is intuitive and atheism unnatural

Evidence

Unlike historians and sociologists, who have spilled a lot of ink on the origins of secularization, psychologists have said little about it. The current take, offered by several cognitive scientists of religion, is that, while self-reflectively there are atheists, intuitively, everyone is a theist. Paul Bloom, for example, puts it this way: People everywhere naturally have some tacit supernatural beliefs; these arise in children regardless of the culture. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 572