Religion fails time and time again - But once the concept of omnipotent power is there, it is hard, if not impossible to shake - It challenges mortality - And if men can't challenge the mortality of biological being he is no more than an intelligent bug - I like to think I'm more than that - How about you?
Even Einstein, who did not believe in a religions god - did accept a kind of pantheistic hierarchy in the existent universe.
To quote one of Einstein's contemporaries and Noble Prize winner, Max Planck:
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."