It explains things better than atheism. For example, many people feel that science rules out God. We need not rely on God anymore, they claim, because science explains everything. These people have, themselves misunderstood the episteme of the scientific method. Materialistic reductionists must postulate an eternal universe in one form or another; an effect without cause. This becomes a problem for them, in that the practice of science relies on the assumption of cause and effect. Even the so called quantum non-causality is explored scientifically with implicit faith in cause and effect. We must,in a theist's view, posit atemporal(eternal) immaterial(because matter necessitates time) self existent (omnipotent) being. Hence God.