[ WP ] In an alternate timeline religion never existed , describe the first person in modern day 2014 thinks of something like God .

`` So what happens after you die?'' 
 `` You know what happens. The same thing that's always happened.'' 
 `` I know, our bodies are used, but what happens to *us* to our soul?'' 
 
 At this point Kelly turned to her lover in the darkness, the cigarette in his mouth winking. 
 She felt a connection with him she had n't felt in a long time. Something stirred in her. She could n't put her finger on it, but it felt new and frightening. It felt like fear. Does he even know what he's asking? 
 
 `` Honey, we do n't have souls. We are just animals, we evolved like all the life on earth, and we know our atoms come from star stuff. You learned all this on school, silly.'' 
 
 
 `` But, just humor me for a minute. Imagine if we did have souls, if once we die we go to a place and meet with everyone who has died that we loved. My mom would be there, your brother for you. Hell, even Sparky my first Lab would be there. We would all be happy and love each other in perfect harmony for ever. Does n't that sound great?'' 
 
 It did n't sound too great to Kelly, because she was laughing before he finished. 
 
 `` I love you,'' she laughed, `` Always coming up with these stories. You could make money off your stories. Imagine that, selling your books and then we live in a big house in Denver with a white fence.'' 
 
 `` I'm serious, Kel.'' His tone told her he was, `` what if we did n't evolve. What if we were... created, for lack of a better term. Created by some being that created the whole universe, and then created all the animals and plants and fish, everything here. Then he/she/it gave us life and wants us to live right so we can be with our loved ones for ever in paradise.'' 
 
 `` You're starting to scare me so I'm going to drop it. We were n't created, we fucking evolved from a common ancestor, all mammals did. Same with all fish and plants and everything. We know it's true because of the evidence in the earth. We can measure radioactive decay in elements and get a solid time frame for the creation of the earth. This is elementary school stuff, honey, why question the truth?'' 
 
 `` Because I do n't believe that. Why believe something someone told you was true? Just because they said it was the truth? How do we know this...'' god'' did n't make the rocks look billions of years old just to test us?'' 
 
 `` Damn it Joey that's enough. We know how life came to be, we know how old the earth is and we know this because we can measure it. We can do tests! Numbers do n't lie.'' 
 
 She threw the covers back in frustration, she was still horny but this conversation was sapping that urge fast. She went into the bathroom nude, not bothering with a light. She sat on the commode, did her business then pulled the handle. It flushed with grey water that smelled slightly of chemicals to be recycled by the houses built in filtration system. The sun would be up in an hour the digital display told her, the solar batteries still deep in the green. 
 
 She returned to bed, and started to initiate, but he did not respond. He simply stared at the ceiling. She ran her finger tips lightly across his chest, then down his belly, lower still but he interrupted her rather roughly. 
 
 `` Not now.'' 
 
 `` Listen,'' she said softly, `` why are you thinking like this? Why question more than two thousand years of scientific discoveries and chalk up humans greatest triumphs to a magical sky wizard?'' 
 
 He rolled away then, turned his back to her. 
 
 `` I do n't believe it. I have faith.'' 
 
 Now she was pissed. Not only did he shoot down her advances, but now he's outright denying facts. 
 
 `` Fine then, non-believer. Let's see how far that gets you.'' 
 
 The next months were tragic. During Joey's day job of welding panels to the new space skiff S-R27 his ground wires somehow went live, locking every muscle in his body with 50,000 volts. His eye burst from the current, clothes catching fire as the power arced through him. 
 
 When Kelly went to confirm his body and sign off on its recycling she was given an object they found in his pocket. It held no meaning to her, neither to the medical examiners. 
 
 It was a coin, beaten into the shape of a cross.
