I have had a different reaction. I was both a scientific nerd and a theological nerd from age five.
I started out as an engineering/biology double major, but eventually focused on church service.
Although I am certainly not expert in QM, I had multiple awards in both the hard sciences and mathematics, and excelled in physics. At the same time as I was garnering awards in those, ages sixteen through nineteen, I also was selected by several theologians for special mentoring.
I ultimately saw a parallel failing between science and religion: Mistaking the Model for the Real.
A scale model of a P-51, no matter how accurately detailed (and even if 1:1!) is not the same as a real one. And a poorly detailed, small-scale one does not cease to be a model of one.
Does Orbital Theory make Bohr’s Atom useless? No. Does Quantum Mechanics make Orbital Theory useless? No. I would not try to teach a child from scratch using QM; I would use Bohr’s conception, move up to SPDF, and so on.
No mathematical equation, or sets of equations, is the same as the real thing: the Universe or God. Likewise, no set of theological ruminations encompasses the truth of God and his Word. Science does not produce Truth - nor does theology.
These things have their value in their various levels of usefulness, but they are not true or false in an absolute sense; they are instead more or less accurate, in comparison to Reality - or God.
Though I am Christian, I resort to a quotation I once heard by a rabbi:
“I am not very interested in what Man has to say about God [Theology]; I am much more interested in what God has to say about Man [The Word].” Daniel Lapin (Bracketed additions are mine.)
I do not begrudge others their continuing fascination with such things, I am just saying that this conflation - or worse, replacement - of the Real with the Model has gradually lessened my interest in both theoretical physics and dogmatic theology.
Agree with you that no model is the real thing. My first interest in Theology came from an encounter with Spirit. It first happened when I was 7, and also in my 50s. Between those times I read like a starving castaway, while being a wife and mother of 4 children. When the kids were all gone their way, at the ate of 52 I returned to college and complete a degree in a joint major of Religion/Sociology & a minor in Communication. I won awards for both Religion and Greek. I then was accepted at the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond and completed my M.Div.with awards in Hebrew and Rural Ministry. Since then my life has been completely dedicated to my “church” ministry, having pastored 7 different churches during 27 years. My intellect has been occupied with the Word and my life living in the guidance of the Spirit.
That being said, I still love the mental exercise that comes with Metaphysical being. Quatum is an interesting study that I have no scientific background to understand, but I try for the fun of it. I made an A in Physics in college even though my brain has never been able to wrap around math. But there is a big gap between Physics and Quantum Physics. I just take what I can gain from the study of it.
Thanks for your interest.
Nan