"I submit there are many who have a belief in a God that have a similar interest in the natural world, and science that you seem to limit to those who do not believe in a God."

Of course they do, but the point I'm making is that the superimposition of God on to it all (as in silly things such as "I believe in evolution and even the Big Bang but God must have kicked it all off and then left it to run by itself") stops you at some point from searching for the real truth. It's too facile a cutoff, the ultimate expression of the God of the Gaps. He'll clasp his hands over your eyes and ears quicker than you could ever do it yourself. Even if you don't find that intellectually-stunting, surely you'll admit that it's intellectually lazy.