<p>Ignoring all the personal quibbling, someone mentioned that the belief in some sort of higher power is an inborn thing because even people who don't consciously believe in a higher power will make references to it. I've always thought this was more of a social thing...in my case, at least, I grew up being taught by my parents and by society in general that god exists and everything that goes along with that. Even if your parents weren't religious and didn't specifically teach you that, it's still a dominant aspect of culture and you learn about it anyway. So while you're young it gets stored in the back of your mind as some sort of habit or expectation of being human. Later when you're old enough to decide that, really, you find the whole idea of organized religion fairly ridiculous, the old habits don't really go away. You say "oh god, please let me do well on this test", even though you don't believe in god or think that saying that will have any effect on what happens. It's just an inescapable cultural thing, it doesn't mean everyone's born with a Christianity-believing gene or something. Although I suppose you could perhaps argue that humans are born with the tendency to make up fantastical stories to explain things that they don't understand, but obviously once there are logical explanations for those things the need for the stories goes away.</p>