This argument from admired religious scientists is strange when it comes from a fundie, especially since many of their pet examples believe in lots of heresies.

These fundies think that Mary-worshipping, saint-worshipping, mackerel-snapping Papist idolators like Louis Pasteur are True Xians when they are admired scientists.

And they also think that about Trinity-deniers like Sir Isaac Newton. BTW, that's something that he tried to keep secret for fear of endangering his career.

And finally, since the fundies are so insistent on taking vicarious credit for science, I wonder when they are going to start taking similar vicarious credit for the idea of evolution.