[jonnat]

> The Many World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics was rejected out of hand by scientists that were also religious

Do you have a reference for that? The Many Worlds interpretation was initially rejected by John Wheeler, Everett's Ph.D. advisor, under the influence of Neils Bohr, but I've never read anywhere that the motivation of the two was in any way religious.

The book What is Real? by Adam Becker has a good account of this history.