Which was first: Atheism or Religion?

[Cyberman]

Let's run through this one more time. Whenever we - all of us, theists included - are confronted with the results of an effect, we automatically determine the cause. You return home to find your front door wide open? Maybe you left it unlocked and unlatched; maybe it's burglars; maybe it's aliens. Without further information, all options consistent with evidence are equally plausible - but not all options are equally probable. It's not at all rational to leap in a single bound from the scenario as presented straight to the least likely cause without eliminating all other more likely simple possibilities first.

It's not that atheists and more general sceptics are rejecting evidence out of hand, at least on principle. It's more that any evidence that may be presented doesn't actually do what it says on the tin - it's not as compelling nor as plausible as might be claimed.

And it's not that we are asking for evidence of the supernatural, again on principle. All I ask, for one, is evidence for supernatural claims and/or evidence for the supernatural effects on the natural world. Eliminate all the other options first; it might not be necessary to make that final leap at all.