Have you made peace with god (or the Mods depending on your faith)

[xoggoth]

My physics teacher at skool said the same about the leading physicists of the day

He was probably right. Some major scientists were driven by religion, it just happens that they were right so never got questioned.

Loiuse Pasteur chose to ignore many experiments that appeared to support the idea of spontaneous creation rather than actually look into and explain them. (Some bacteria can survive prolonged boiling which nobody realised at the time) Milikan simply excluded any experiments that did not support his value of e even when there was no obvious flaw in them.