I think non-belief is, whenever we are presented with something extraordinary, the default, and I think this is healthy. When it comes to God or gods (surely extraordinary claims), then, again, the healthy response is non-belief, which in this case is called atheism.
What would it take to make be change my default view? Actually, not much -- an appropriate asterism (arrangement of stars) in the sky as seen from our perspective -- say the Tetrahedron -- would do the trick. Miracles don't, since fraud is so likely, and especially miracles reported second and third hand.
A different world -- one which doesn't have so much suffering and where evolution takes place without so much death and disease -- that might help too -- at least some sort of explanation for all the suffering more credible than Adam and Eve. (I note they found a fossil fish dating from before the dinosaurs that apparently had a huge tumor. I wonder how that poor fish was able to inherit Adam's sin).
The idea that the universe is just what it is, and doesn't care (has no possibility of awareness) about us and the bad things that happen to us) fits the observed universe much better.
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