Rebuttal to Sam Usem's "God as a Band-Aid Theory."

Disclaimer: This is refurbished from Facebook Notes.
Sam Usem, a wonderful person, intellectually stimulating, and generally cool dude theorizes the following, which he has named "God as a Band-Aid Theory.": (summarized by me.)

Historically, humans have always been a superstitious species. When we don't understand something, when we didn't get why or how, we said that it was a God. We didn't get that huge bright orangy thing in the sky. How it worked, why it went up and down, what it is... We didn't know any of this. So you know what we did? We said it was a God. Egyptians called him Ra, the Aztecs called him Tonatiuh, Greeks thought that Helios (Titan or Hyperion) drove a chariot across the sky each day, and Chinese believed that it was a "sun bird" that brightened each day.
We didn't believe that we had sway in this world, so the Greeks prayed to Ares, Nike, and Athena, the Romans played to Victoria and Vacuna, etc. in order to win victory over their enemies in battle. We prayed for protection, for strength.
We worshiped Gods of the cosmos, the earth, natural disasters. We prayed for knowledge, strength, good crops, and beauty. Anything we desired and anything we appreciated that we did not understand - we turned to a God for help.
Then we became "more intelligent" as a species, we knew what moved the tides, we knew how meteorology affected our farms, how basic solar system entities worked; yet we still didn't (and still don't) get what happened to us (or what makes each one of us what we are.) after death. For this, and for some other things, we still turn to God.
But for once as a species, we are becoming more logical. More of us turn to rational reasoning as to why and how the world works, what will happen to us and etc. etc. Now, when we find new things that perplex us, things that are too complex for us to yet understand, we don't turn to deities, we notice it, and realize we don't understand it yet, and research it more to become more knowledgeable. When we see sub-atomic particles that seem to disappear and reappear at will, we don't say, "Oh! That must be the Particle God, Participles." we instead say "Hmm, this is quite intriguing, we should look into this." "I concur." says the Lab Assistant and "Uh... Cool!" says the funder, pouring billions of dollars of research into discovering the truth.
This, Sam has decided, means that we are becoming less and less superstitious.

I disagree.

Humans are just as superstitious as we once were, we just place that superstition in different things. Instead of saying God rewards us with the good crop season, we say that Aliens and UFOs create crop circles and mutilate our cows. We claim to have been abducted by extra-terrestrials, haunted by ghosts, and contacted by dead loved ones. How are we so different from the primitive humans we now look down upon?

Interesting Fact: Insurance companies call natural disasters such as tornadoes, hail damage, etc. as "Acts of God" yet floods are not included in this list. Does anyone remember that bible story where God destroyed the world, leaving only Noah with some animals? How did God do that again? Oh, right. :D