The point, which has been well made, is that people we would recognise as scientists who also happen to be theists made their discoveries despite their theism if anything. Sir Isaac Newton was undoubtedly one of the finest minds in history and he was a xtian. Yet his contributions to human knowledge derive as much from his religious beliefs as from his alchemical ones. To imply or even state outright, as preachers often do, that a genius like Newton believed in "God" therefore it must be real, else how dare you think you're smarter than Newton, is laughably egregious. We are fully justified in assessing his work and that of other scientists against whatever religious convictions they may hold and judge which of them has the greater relevance to reality. By their fruits shall ye know them and all that.
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.'
