Scientists are very much like everyone else.
Thus we should expect to find fundamentalism, conformism,spiritualism, widespread idiosyncratic orthodoxy, and allother forms of religious nonsense to be representedamong them. The reassurance of tribal belonging at the base of the spirituality of religion is no more optional for human beings than is water, food, or sleep. For the human animal, religion, in some form or other, is a non-negotiable necessity. Many Islamic theologians have insisted that Mohammed was born circumcised. As with all Semitic races, the Arab tradition of circumcision predates their modern religion.