“Anyone who really believed in a vague deity, would have recognized their strange inhuman creator when Darwin said “Aha!”—too strong a statement. Inability to recognize something you believe in is not improbable. Suppose I believe Harry Potter mages infiltrate Earth and suppose they really do. If I see a guy waving their wand should I actually believe it’s a real Harry Potter mage not someone who pretends to be? No, since even if Harry Potter mages are real it is much more likely to see a Muggle pretender than a real breaker of the Statute of Secrecy. For similar reasons they may wait for “cause beyond the cause”—judging (wrongly) that evolution does not suffice.
“Anyone who really believed in a vague deity, would have recognized their strange inhuman creator when Darwin said “Aha!”—too strong a statement. Inability to recognize something you believe in is not improbable. Suppose I believe Harry Potter mages infiltrate Earth and suppose they really do. If I see a guy waving their wand should I actually believe it’s a real Harry Potter mage not someone who pretends to be? No, since even if Harry Potter mages are real it is much more likely to see a Muggle pretender than a real breaker of the Statute of Secrecy. For similar reasons they may wait for “cause beyond the cause”—judging (wrongly) that evolution does not suffice.