The fact you don't understand the difference between EVIDENCE produced by the scientific process and personal belief, highlights the futility of talking to you. You called me a materialist, I value the evidence and evidence alone.....telling me people believe in god is nothing but as anecdotal aside to me. They can do science all day and go home and make love to Donkey's, the data they collate in the day still stands, and I for one will say no to El'Burro!
As for the statistics you have provided, this happens to be an area I researched for a paper.
This was the biggest and best study I could find when I did my research 2 years ago.
"According to the poll, just over half of scientists (51%) believe in some form of deity or higher power; specifically, 33% of scientists say they believe in God, while 18% believe in a universal spirit or higher power. By contrast, 95% of Americans believe in some form of deity or higher power"
http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/
As for the survey you quoted from 2005, the writer Elaine Ecklund wrote "Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think" in 2010 breaking up how she came to the conclusion of "two thirds" of scientists believing in god. Take a peak and see what she did....
34% were atheist (12% of which also call themselves spiritual)
30% were agnostic
27% had some belief in God (9% have doubts but affirm their belief, 5% have occasional belief, 8% believe in a higher power that is not a personal God)
9% of scientists said they had no doubt of God's existence.
Recognising the statistical slight of hand she played, she did admit beliving scientists are "a considerably smaller proportion than the approximately 90% in the general American population"
Despite this it means jack shit to me. Pythagoras was still right, despite him and his buddies bowing to Zeus. The fact that only 9% of scientists have no doubt of gods existence it means nothing to me. The evidence they work on day in and out does.
Also, you do realise you can no longer question the motives of science as you believe 2/3rds are believers. Kind of puts you in a difficult position as you have called them liars for 6 pages.....
Snare x