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Although, as you tell it, this Atkins guy made it sound as though they were. The difference between cosmology and religion is, as I'm sure you know, the former is actually trying to think of a model compatible with the laws of physics, even if the ideas scientists come up with cannot be tested in the near future (Nothing says models must be tested as soon as they exit a scientist's brain, but I do agree that cosmologists excitably telling us about the "latest" untestable theory is getting annoying.) Religion, however, has long given up on any rational, observation-based method of investigation. Yes, I know there are Vatican astronomers, but whatever they find will never change core Catholic dogma. I believe what frustrates Atkins, Myers, and Hitchens more than people having blind faith, is that they view blind faith as giving up on the search for meaning, and instead settling on one arbitrary meaning that was decided for them centuries ago.
