Actually, I found their admiration vaguely pathetic, sort of like the Pakled on Star Trek. "They are smart. They can make it go".
Maybe, somewhere between the 'I hate all eggheads' mentality on FR, and the 'DUH, those guys are smart' on DU, sanity is to be found.
I've always been conservative and I've always believed in God. Also, I've always believed in evolution. Until this year, I had no idea that a belief in evolution was incompatible with conservatism and a belief in God.