Although it's not really something I pay attention to (I swear, atheists pay more attention to religion/religious affiliation than theists such as myself do =/), usually, the depictions of scientists/engineers that I saw (especially in Sci-Fi) were atheists.
In fact (puts on Vulcan ears), Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek (which modeled an example that many other subsequent Sci-Fis followed) believed that the ideal future of humanity was a future where everyone had taken up atheism and no one participated in theism (which he considered to be a major cause of humanity's conflict). As such, despite there being religious crew-members in Star Trek (such as Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager) most of them exhibited a clear lack of religious affiliation and were at least secular (with the exception of the Klingons who were depicted as living under one religion and as "savages" and the Vulcans who were more dedicated to the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment in the form of the seeking of logic than they were interested in the worship of any deity).
Note that most of the Crew members aboard any given Star ship were more or less, scientists. Many, in fact, were considered experts in their field.
IIN to be annoyed by how TV(USA) misrepresents scientists as theists?
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This.
Although it's not really something I pay attention to (I swear, atheists pay more attention to religion/religious affiliation than theists such as myself do =/), usually, the depictions of scientists/engineers that I saw (especially in Sci-Fi) were atheists.
In fact (puts on Vulcan ears), Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek (which modeled an example that many other subsequent Sci-Fis followed) believed that the ideal future of humanity was a future where everyone had taken up atheism and no one participated in theism (which he considered to be a major cause of humanity's conflict). As such, despite there being religious crew-members in Star Trek (such as Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager) most of them exhibited a clear lack of religious affiliation and were at least secular (with the exception of the Klingons who were depicted as living under one religion and as "savages" and the Vulcans who were more dedicated to the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment in the form of the seeking of logic than they were interested in the worship of any deity).
Note that most of the Crew members aboard any given Star ship were more or less, scientists. Many, in fact, were considered experts in their field.
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.