Birthplace of Logic?

Ancient Greece: Home to Thales, the first philosopher; the fertile land from which came the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics. Truly the beginning of reason as a high ideal.

The only problem with this is that it's horseshit. On matters of religion they were prone to just about every fallacy that the field of logic had (and has). Fortunately for us, there wasn't much room for bias when it came to the equality of internal angles.

There is one point they make, in particular, that I'd like to take up: Nearly all the groups were in awe of the stars. The heavens seemed to them "amazingly regular" and that they had some kind of motive power that kept them moving. Cicero sums up, for instance, the Stoics' position: "What could be more clear or obvious, when we look up at the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence, by which they are controlled?" The fallacy is glaring of course, but it must have seemed reasonable to the many devotees of the mystical religions (of which Stoicism was one).

Of course, from our modern point of the view the stars aren't amazing at all. Most of us can't even see them, and we've shifted to our viewpoint so that the heavens aren't revolving in perfection around Earth, we are simply a small spinning rock on the outer edge of one of many galaxies. But one doesn't really need the advantage of modern scientific knowledge to see the problem with the "argument". Cicero himself rebuts: "We must seek an intelligible cause for all these phenomena. The moment you fail to find one, you run off to a god like a suppliant to an altar."

Awe of nature still sends many running off to a god. The creation of the universe, the apparently fortuitous values of physical constants and spatial dimensions, and especially the complexity of life are all cited as inexplicable in terms of science. What else, other than a caring god, could have made all of this possible?

Allow me to make my own unlogical (not 'illogical') argument. Countless times humans have appealed to the existence of a higher being when explaining phenomena, only to have those phenomena later explained in rational terms. Lightening, magnetism, disease, motion of the stars, fire, pregnancy, volcanic eruption, earthquakes, rain: all once attributed to gods, all now understood to not be the product of a god. For how many years will a significant portion of the most wealthy, most intellectually active nation in the world still believe that a god is responsible for what science has yet to fully explain? And what if we have no explanation for something; this suggests there is a god? God is the universal patch for our rationalist shortcomings? Duct tape for the body of human knowledge?