And moreover, life doesn't need an intelligent design to evolve. Nature selects the best for making the most of it's resources. And we do accept that we know too little of the origin and fate of universe, and it is more than what's written in the religious books. And the whatever unknown remains, will be known by the relentless effort of our kinds.
It is not the belief that irks me, but their selectivity to science and it's achievement. In one hand you're taking chemotherapy and medicine to fight cancer, and on the other hand you're praying to 'God' for your well being. If God really exists and cared for you, you didn't had Cancer in the first place, bitch. Jokes apart.
What these staunch believers count on is 'The God of the gaps', hundreds of years ago they held God responsible for rain, earthquake, meteor shower. And now we know the reason for all these incidences. So as it seems, the sphere of 'Godly' influence decreases with the increase of knowledge. Perhaps that is the reason for more than 93% of the well known Physicists are atheist.
Bdw, i'm a electrical engineer, which research and academic interest bordering Nanophotonics/nanotechnology and Quantum physics. And i have deep interest in evolution of cognitive consciousness and evolutionary biology.