It is enough to cause reluctance towards clearer forward thinking. The concept of a "god" is a catch all and a cop out to an understanding of the true meaning of "forever forward in time and always has been in the infinite past". We are beginning to realise that our universe has had no beginning and will have no end. That idea that "there must have been a beginning" is strictly human.
Umm, yeah, I'd say that is pretty human, and since humans are what we are dealing with in the here and now, I don't have a problem with humans asking questions and looking backward and forward. Since we, as humans, have self-consciousness and the knowledge that we will indeed die at some point, it's pretty natural to ask questions about the things we don't understand. Our egos make acceptance of the inevitable difficult to achieve, and our emotional makeup and attachment to the things we love makes us search for some kind of hope that we will continue to exist in some form. It's the double-edge sword of creativity and cognition.
It is easy to prove wrong because one of the few constants that has never been proven wrong is that matter and or energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Our tiny brains have known that long enough that it should be trusted. Still most of us want to look backwards instead of ahead. It seems we cannot easily believe what is right in front of us.
Yep- that pesky creativitity concept again. Men can control the actions of others, but human thoughts and beliefs cannot be controlled.