Creative thought plays an important role in the advancement of science, in fact the only way significant breakthroughs have ever occurred. Thinking otherwise is a gross misunderstanding of the scientific process.

Delusion is easily induced by doctrine and dogma. Scientific proof is need to debunk
this. Newest tests in psychiatry have shown that the notion of a god is man made.
Check out the studies of John Bowlby and expanded by Mary Ainsworth in the 1940's.
Brain-imaging studies at the National Institutes of Health determines that morality is an adaptive mechanism handed down by natural selection that has been hijacked by religion.
We have tribal or groupish tendencies found in our DNA that create enmities between
religious factions such as Protestant vrs. Catholic or Sunni vrs. Shiite.