I believe religion is not only necessary in the grand scheme, but a projection of something biologically innate.

At least in some form. Perhaps it is part of the evolutionary process to do with our imagination. Every imaginary creation is greater than what we know to be true, but that also gives us opportunity to work toward its development, making it true.

I wrote an article a long, long time ago called "The architect and the Egg" (Can't find it!?). Essentially the premise is, the architect dreams the possibly impossible, the engineer does what they can to make it a reality. The engineer might not complete it 100%, but in order to get close, they might need to create new materials, or processes. And with those and inspired by what was built, the next iteration of the architect can advance even further. Without the Engineer, the architect is impotent. Without the architect, the engineer copy pastes more efficiently.

Perhaps this is what belief in magic does for us, it is our personal architect who designs an imaginary world, to give the space for us to build differently than what we currently are.

Edit: found it referenced in another post:
@tarazkp/the-architect-or-the-egg