Transcendence and Babies

The other day I passed my finger by my baby daughter's nose.  She followed it until it passed from her line of sight.  I had done this many times in the past with her, but this time something very alarming occurred, she continued to look for my finger.  Even though she no longer experienced it with her eyes, she believed that it still existed and sought to find it.  It has been said that one of the first major developmental feats of a young baby's life occurs when she learns that an object, which has departed from her line of vision still exists.  In the early months of a child's life, objects which a child cannot see, to him/her do not exist.  This is explained by noting that a very young child operates out of a primitive understanding of the world.  He/she understands reality to be that which can be immediately experienced.  Over time however, the child begins to grasp the fact that there is more to reality than what one can immediately experience.  We call this transcendence, an understanding of the world which embraces the fact that there is more to the world than what I am immediately consciousness of, in any given moment.  The naturalists (those who embrace the theory of evolution) reject the idea of transcendence.  These folk posit that all reality is wrapped up in this physical world, which can be completely explained through and by science.  Even though some naturalists suggest that there may be life on other planets, they still do not stand at odds with their basic position, which rejects the idea of a greater being (i.e. God) who created all things.  In other words, miracles, such as revelation and other "unscientific, irrational" events do not occur.  Thus, an understanding of the world which firmly embraces the idea of transcendence is fool-hearted and untenable.  Yet, we return to my baby daughter.  If she had failed to follow my finger after it passed from her vision after a year of life, I would be told that she has developmental issues, something would be wrong.  Babies are supposed to develop in this way, it is normal for them to embrace transcendence.  We celebrate when they develop this transcendent reality.  In fact, transcendence is not something they choose, it is a default developmental position.  How interesting that as humans we are born to naturally embrace a transcendent God, and yet many spend the rest of life trying to distort the reality they were born to embrace?