And I am suggesting that that is EXACTLY how all the religious beliefs once began. Someone observed something. That started up a train of logical thought in their mind, based on whatever they already knew about life, and they created a belief based on that.

After that people just repeated it like parrots for a long, long time, until some clever person came up with a radical, new and better idea, in which case most people promptly got VERY upset with him, and possibly executed him in some horrible fashion. ;-) Nowadays he would not get executed. He would probably just get laughed at, parodied, ignored, rejected, criticized vehemently in trade journals, and have his funding cut off!

Or if he was really lucky...and the timing was right...he'd be hailed for making a brand new breakthrough in human knowledge. And on that basis, society would adopt a new belief (commonly accepted knowledge) and he'd get the credit for it.