Plus, they are not very good philosophers at that. Their understanding of the philosophical enterprise is limited, and I suspect it is because they have had little training in philosophical methodology and not much education about the history of philosophy. I do think there is evidence to support the existence of some Creator or First Cause. Maybe not, that's a matter of judgment. But I do think there is certainly a preponderance of evidence in favor of it.
Empirical science has no satisfactory explanation for the actual origin of the material universe.
At least, I think that classical philosophical realism has provided an adequate explanation as far as it can do so. Philosophy can never give a theological explanation nor define the Creator or First Cause in theological terms. Once it argues for and posits the existence of some initial creative force, philosophy is virtually done with the matter. In fact, the metaphysics of classical realism provides the only real solid foundation for the legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But, again, scientific knowledge is one thing, philosophical knowledge is another.