Dr. Dan Gilbert - Unasked Question

Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Goodman talked extensively about the relationship between predictions, our inability to act on them, and the way religion interplays with the way we try to predict things. Thus, the question I would've asked is: how does a belief in a "higher power" formulate the way people react to their predictions—both the ones they make and the actual outcomes? I would ask this because they kind of skated around this idea of theist vs. atheist predictions, but they never quite dug extensively into it. With this said, however, there could be a lot of valuable insights. Namely, there have been a tremendous amount of the most extraordinary human achievements guided under the premise of serving a divine or utmost power (e.g. cathedrals, pyramids, etc.), and these weren't really a reflection of our human predictions of what would be best for ourselves but more so a reflection of what would best serve the wishes of the higher power. With this said, however, paradoxically, this inadvertently produced some of most extraordinary projects and artistic contributions to humanity of all time. So it would be interesting to hear the psychology of what guides humans to these extreme lengths from a spiritual lens, specifically how it interplays with our predictive instincts and how spirituality seems to "hijack" this in interesting ways.