Religion is an easy answer for our restless minds when you consider that we have an advanced brain that longs to understand everything. This has to do with the three aspects discussed in the byproduct theory from the article "Why We Believe." Agent detection (e.g. assuming ambiguous approaching creature is something dangerous), causal reasoning (e.g. ability to connect things and make a story out of it, in order to predict and learn), and theory of mind (e.g. the ability to "put yourself in someone else's shoes"). Causal reasoning in terms of religion, is people making sense of extraordinary events by assuming a higher being is responsible. And in the spirit of agent detection, if people cannot tell whether or not a higher being is responsible for an extraordinary event or not it is safer to assume that it is. When looking at this idea that we are willing to believe in the supernatural objectively, it does not seem to make sense. A neo-atheist such as Richard Dawkins would likely agree that this makes no sense. To him, religion is blind faith; that is, it is belief in something that there is no evidence for. Science is how he chooses to fulfill that longing to understand the world, because there is evidence there and there are real tangible things to study.
I tend to agree with Dawkins. There does not seem to be proof of God or a supernatural force acting in our everyday lives, and I instead find wonder in the scientific mystery that is life. I find it more reasonable to look at something that there is proof of and that we can make sense of. I like to think that I keep an objective view of the world. However, I find myself acting religiously in various aspects of my life wether it has anything to with a God or not.