It seems your point is that God has nothing to do with physicality, and only has import spiritually? I don't agree, but I also don't think you agree with God being only a spiritual being, and neither effecting nor affecting the physical world.

As I know many researchers that are devout in various denominations, I suspect you refer only to atheist researchers, since only they would agree that 'there is no God'. Given that atheism is a minority, even of scientists, perhaps blinders are innate to people of every faith, and not only devout atheists.

Would you agree that we all have blinders, but that it is our spiritual blinders that blind us most deeply?

Thanks!