I have now heard twice in the entertainment industry the same argument (in "The Mentalist", in "Contact").
The argument is when talking with an atheist that in order to be one, we must feel "95% of mankind is delusional". That somehow the fact that 95 out of 100 people feel there is a god is evidence enough that there must be one.
Funny thing is, if I were to list why I am an atheist, one of the top things on my list would be that 95% of the population believes in a god. That statistic helps prove my theory, not disprove it.
My reasoning is because of those 95 out of 100 people, if you were to ask how god made the world, and what they think god is, you will probably get close to 95 different answers. If everyone thought the same thing, or followed the same religion, then I might think there was something to it. But with a thousand religions out there, it leads me to believe people think there is a god, because something genetic inside most humans compel them to think there is one.
I don't know if it's fear of death, or a level of uncomfortableness with not understanding the universe, or if they need to feel they have a purpose in life, but it's obvious to be that a belief in god is something people are driven to. Not something that's necessarily accurate.
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