As you pointed out and like I was trying to point out myself, the work of these religious scientists is in spite of their religious beliefs. As a quick and dirty example, just off the top of my head, Charles Darwin came to revolutionise the field of biology despite his own religious upbringing and the common view of his day.
As for the Lattice thing, I still don't see a connection between it and evolution of any kind, theistic or otherwise. At most we'd have some basis for a deistic nature to the Universe, starring as you say aliens instead of gods.
As for the Lattice thing, I still don't see a connection between it and evolution of any kind, theistic or otherwise. At most we'd have some basis for a deistic nature to the Universe, starring as you say aliens instead of gods.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
