I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?

[Esquilax]

Turns out it's pretty hard to believe in nothing when your psyche is wired for faith.

May I ask why you started out with this pathetic, sleazy strawman, yet still somehow expect us to extend you the good faith that you've inconsiderately avoided giving us?

After reading the article, my questions are:

Why on God's green earth is the human brain wired for faith when our development is the result of purely evolutionary processes with no supreme being involved at all?

Leaving aside the- very important, I think- observations others have made here about how you're misinterpreting the article and about how society plays a role, there's actually an answer to the question you asked that's more parsimonious and doesn't rely on space magic: consider early development. Faith is actually a really, really useful thing when you're a kid and uncritically accepting the safety advice your parents give you results in you not doing things that'll get you hurt or killed. There is a point in the human life cycle, well before the engagement of rational thinking or physical development, in which taking orders on faith results in a net advantage to the species.

No magic required, and it's also worth pointing out that that point ends at adulthood. But then, evolution is a blind process, and since at a certain point it stops mattering, the deleterious effects of faith contaminate the mind long after the use of it is gone, and heedless of the contextual nature of this.

I always find it so funny, when you people trot out these insipid questions like you think there's no answer.

Is it possible that God gave us brains that are pre-wired for receptivity to His existence to make it easier for us to believe in Him?

Things that haven't been demonstrated to exist cannot be seriously asserted as the cause of other things. It's that simple.