Higher levels of education are linked with lower levels of religious commitment, especially the more extreme versions of zealotry.
I don't really understand how someone who studies biology or physics to any degree could subscribe to an interventional deity.
physics: issac newton, gottfried Leibniz, george lemaitre, james maxwell, lord kelvin,j. j. thompson ...
biology: gregor mendel, pasteur, francis collins...
there are rather a few very big names who are Just Fine doing both.
it’s just a false dichotomy, sorry.
We've got Twitter and Reddit, and if those don't encapsulate staggering advances in human knowledge, I don't know what would.
It's becoming pretty clear how everything since the big bang came to be.
religion is not and never really has been primarily concerned with how. It’s larger concern is why, and even more than that, given existence: how then should we live?.
Since “religion” seems to be shorthand for “the religions of abraham” in common discourse, it’s worth noting that, e. g., Genesis was not written as a text on cosmology. It’s a text on ethics, and to a fairly large extent, it’s also a ~5th century BCE political document. To willfully read it “literally” is just wrong-footed, though it’s very common among christian fundamentalists and new atheists alike.
But the effect to which this is true is somewhat confuddled. For example many educated people on the conservative right tend to still skew religious. Maybe education alone isn't enough; intelligence, social circles, aptitude for self reflection/self criticism etc, might play more into determining one's religiosity.
I put it down to religion being deeply embedded into self-identity, especially in families and spousal relationships where everyone is religious.
It's a spectrum though, I am thoroughly atheist but still like singing carols at Christmas.