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This has nothing to with the scientists themselves but rather the fundamentalist attitudes adopted by both camps of the atheism versus religion debate.
A symptom of a fundamentalist attitude is claiming some form of superiority over the other side even if there is no evidence to support it.
For example the "religious right" claim that since morality is a preserve of religion, atheists have no morals. This is clearly a fallacious argument.
Similarly some atheists claim that religious belief is a lack of critical thinking, hence religious belief and the ability to think are some how mutually exclusive.
This line of thinking obviously fails as there has been religious practitioners who have also turned out to being scientists of the highest calibre.
This formed the basis of my argument.
Regards
Steven
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