Misfortune and seeking an explanation.

A man stands under a tree to protect himself from a sudden shower of rain, He is a man of excellenT character with beautiful young children who adore him. Within seconds the tree is struck by lightning and the man is killed instantly.Where is God in all this? Was this God's will?

 People are afflicted with various calamities, they cannot explain the amoral nature of their destiny, BUT people want to understand what happens to them. This is where gods and spirits, however feeble as explanations, at least provide some measure of intelligibility.

A weak explanation is better than no explanation. But why would people want to understand their own misfortune? What drives their minds to seek an explanation? Again, this seems to have an obvious explanation. Minds are designed that way, because a mind that produces a richer understanding of what happens (especially bad things that happen) is certainly better equipped for survival.

 The kind of evolutionary-cognitive framework outlined here is quite clearly reductionistic.
This shows, or  more modestly, appears to show that the appearance and spread of religious concepts are adequately explained in terms of underlying mental processes and events. In this sense it stands in sharp contrast to interpretative or hermeneutic frameworks