No life without explanations?

People have always wanted to know more and more, that is why we have been able to develop to how far we are now. We can be speaking here about technology and knowledge, but religion has also always played a major role. Ages before the Romans peoples already came up with different explanations for disasters and natural appearances, they created Gods. The Romans continued doing this and though up a God for every thinkable event or element. They had Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and many many more. The Jews, Muslims and Christians were the first to have only one God. What is remarkable is that there is nowadays a growing amount of people who do not believe in the existence of such a god. How does this come and where did it start?

I think it already began in the time of the Romans. Why? Because they started doing scientific researches and were looking for other explanations for happenings than Gods. During the renaissance and especially the period of the Enlightenment this question only grew bigger and people wanted to know why it is night and day and what the universe is like. The idea of one or more Gods which created everything was for them not the answer and they looked further. Physics, chemistry and philosophy were originated. Nowadays we know much more about nature and physics than we did back then, so an even larger amount of people did no longer feel the necessity to have a certain religion.

I came to this topic because I was watching a detective whereby someone had disappeared and the family did not know whether she was still alive. They could not mourn or pray for her and were always reminded of the fact that she could be either dead or just walking around somewhere, like Schrodinger's cat. This made it very difficult for them to close this painful chapter, because it simply did not have an ending yet. Again here, people seem to need explanations and answers to live a peaceful life.