No....that's not true. We are not saying that science is yet to explain something and therefore Godditit is a convenient way out. Of course not.
Many people in the world are able to sense hidden forces and hidden patterns in their lives. They are able to sense hidden guidance and unseen driving forces that take their life forward. This makes them accept that there are unseen forces and an unknown intelligence behind their lives.
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That sounds a typical manifestation of human cognitive bias at work, and hence why we do science in the first place to figure what is actually going on. Build an insentient machine, see if it can detect these 'hidden forces', and if it cannot, then the reasonable conclusion is that they don't exist, other than in the mind of the observer.
Human minds are chock full of such biases. For instance, if I stare in an unfocused way at my patterned carpet, sooner or later I can see a face in the carpet. Some people can see faces in clouds or in rock formations. This is cognitive bias at work, we are so preconditioned to discern faces within information that we often see them when they aren't there. No matter if I remind myself that I have multiple lines evidence suggesting there is no one living in my carpet, the illusion persists and this guy in the pattern keeps staring back at me, eyeball to eyeball, unblinking.
This goes a long way to explain the persistence of many of the world's beliefs and superstitions, and it goes a long way to explain why we have learned to distrust personal testimony that is not backed up by objective evidence. Often, things we feel we can 'sense', just aren't there, they are the outcome of hopes and expectations, many of which reside subconsciously in our minds all the time.
Recognising this helps explain why there are are so many unreasonable beliefs still prevalent in an age of (supposed) reason.
