What If ?  What if you were born on a deserted island and your sole parent dies when you were three. It was a paradise with food and water and a mild climate.

 

You can read but the only books are on chemistry & geography & maths & carpentry & chess & clocks & horticulture & astronomy & medicine.

 

There are no fiction books nor religious books nor philosophy books.

 

When you are rescued at 21 years of age have you independently developed a religion and a belief in a God?

 

Not likely as there was no imperative to do so.

 

So when there is no great gap in knowledge of their surroundings, and no one telling & encoraging you to believe in a God, and no churches, and no bibles, there is no God.

 

Would a God find a way to make himself / herself known to such a poor and isolated individual, or does he just miss out?

 

Occams' razor (a principle of problem solving devised by an English friar in

the 14th century) states that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.