But we do because you understood the above conceptual frameworks.
Germ theory is not a fact, like who won the battle of Crecy. It is a whole ever-expanding concept that with it in place in your head, can guide your future actions. Similarly atheism, or logistics, or factory method or steam power ...
But more probably it is that once there stops being a prime mover, the question becomes how did the universe / world / us come into existence. I guess atheism is the model before evolution. But we needed to get to evolution first before atheism became the obvious solution.
Thank you - had not tried to work that one out before
- Earth revolves round sun (transit of venus??)
- Earth spins (Foucaults pendulum)
I started this in "important experiments for kids" on github.