Why don't more people grasp and accept the obvious about God/gods/deities? ~

The most logical and physically possible conclusion is not that living things and the natural world were created by one or more invisible divine beings, but that nature and living things, including humans, came into being and evolved into civilizations, which, in turn, gave rise to religious denominations. People, then, invented gods and the creation narrative to explain how everything came about.

This makes complete, logical sense. Who says no?

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BlueSkyKing · M

"R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

ElwoodBlues · M

@BlueSkyKing Reminds me of
[quote]Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [/quote]