I find that a lot of Atheists support the false dichotomy that Science (how things work as you put it) and Religion are mutually exclusive. By that token one cannot take comfort in being looked out for when they nearly get hit by a car on the way home from work AND take an aspirin to help their headache from the stress of it all? Aspirin is SCIENCE. Science was conducted to help us know that aspirin helps headaches. But if you DARE take that aspirin and support the science that went into it's discovery, you are a spiritual miscreant and clearly confused in your belief structures.
Is that cherry picking? Does it ever enter the HARDCORE ATHEISTS mind that there's something to be said for everything in moderation? Maybe God's a chemist in his spare time?
Let's call them agnostic theists. f***, how about we call it a day and have a beer instead?
If you can't tell my argument style may be suffering as a direct result of the last thought.