I answered a good question about why religious bullshit exists.

"Why do you think religious behaviours and beliefs evolved in hominids?"

Long before science was a word, our ancient ancestors wondered why this planet exists and why it was teeming with life. Somebody said a magical being made it happen. Somebody else said, "that's a good idea". Another person made stuff up about the magic fairy. Eventually, people with numerous ideas created numerous religions, and that's why today we are still infested with anti-science anti-reality morons.

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Somebody else wrote a better answer:

"Humans evolved intelligence which gave us an evolutionary advantage, and it also made us curious about the world around us. For 200,000 years our understanding of an appropriate methodology for investigating reality was limited so we made assumptions to explain what we didn't yet have the tools to investigate or understand completely. A common explanation for what we didn't understand was the supernatural. In the past 400 years, a very small portion of homo sapiens existence, we have developed the methodology of discovering what is most likely true, we call it the scientific method. But we still have the vestigates of past superstition and myths, called religion."

-- Huh