"You can understand how people carrying out research into how the universe really works get a little pissed off ..."

Which is why pete gets me riled sometimes :-) And I've pointed out Mary Schweitzer's faith too. Stony ground and all that.

There is a deep and profound sense of wonder in science that is perhaps not unlike religious experience. Scientists aren't soulless automatons, and we too feel the sense of the numinous but don't necessarily ascribe the cause to the supernatural.