I used the search function for New Scientist but that article does not appear.
Our minds work outside causal reality? WTF? I would like to know what makes you think so. Even it were so and i in know way concede it is so, it does not follow or establish that there are gods, irrespective of whether those imagined entities operate causally. Btw there is some recent progress underway scientifically in terms of understanding consciousness. I aint got the link and am too lazy to get it now.
Religion has an explanation you say. So what? How is that even on a par with a hypothesis? Anybody can make up nonsense but the conception does not equate with the assertion. At least you said something that is not about harlots and insane mythology but you have demonstrated more an IQ of 16.4 than 164.