[1]: http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscap...
[1]: http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscap...
"The point of the list is partly to show that it is possible to be very smart, and successful, and yet hold beliefs that are widely regarded as unsupported, absurd, or simply flawed."
Religion is a construct of the powerful, and to follow one without tangibly benefiting from it is quite weird. I personally believe many "religious" people just go to church to participate and benefit from the community and cultural aspects.
"Georges Lemaître proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe. He was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest."
>Also note that I am not claiming that the beliefs hold by these people are necessarily wrong (although some of them almost certainly are).