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I don't think this has anything to do with fundamentalism.
Until not so long ago virtually all scientists were religious, because everybody was religious by default, through upbringing and indoctrination from early childhood. Many scientists probably lost their superstitious beliefs (which are central to the religious dogma) throughout their years of scientific work, but kept hanging on to the "spiritual" side, whatever that means. I suppose it means token-religiousness for the sake of keeping the peace.
Scientists like Kepler died frustrated because they never managed to shake the superstition. Kepler in particular tried till the end of his life to explain the motion of celestial bodies through some set of geometric bodies suspended in an intricate nesting. The work he is famous for these days was his mathematical analysis of Tycho Brahe's observations, not something he thought of very highly himself.
Einstein failed to appreciate the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, because it didn't gel with this view of the creation ("Gott würfelt nicht!").
It doesn't mean that any of these people were stupid (obviously), but it means that superstitious indoctrination and failure to grow out of it can affect one's work as a scientist.
Materialist-dialectic epistemology (the practice of which is also known as "the scientific method") appears to be the only way to iterate towards the truth. Religious scientists apply that method, too, even though they visit their temple of choice with the rest of the parish and reverently listen to their preacher telling obvious untruths.
Cheers
Steffen.
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