There are aeronautical engineers who think the world is flat. Human beings aren't rational creatures, so it's not surprising that there are scientists that are religious, but acting like it's some bad apples who give religion a bad name is also not correct. Might I remind you the vatican itself has helped hide multiple crimes committed by the clergy over the years, everything from shielding child raping priests by moving them around to burying the bones of the native American children that were kidnapped from their families and brutalized in church grounds. Point me to any country on the map that's a theocracy and I'll show you how they brutalize their population. I'm not against religion, but religion shouldn't be allowed to interfere in other people's lives, should not have any say in how a goverment runs and how laws get passed and should be forced to pay taxes like any other business. Religious people with power over others are a danger to society.