"Quite beyond materialistic interactions, to me, the warp and woof of life suggests a maker with unfathomable grasp of the past, the future, the anvil of being, and the hammer of time and events, on human souls."
Nicely said, and yes, indeed, it does suggest that. But IMHO, the concept of a "maker" is not something that should be taught as science - the original point of the article. Great topic for a philosphy class, though.
One can posit that physics is devoid of supernatural events, all is explained by a mathematical TOE to be discovered, no room for mystery - but how interesting could that be to a being with an apparent transient existence, involved and more deeply concerned with other such beings evolving and dissolving in time?
What motivates people to study things? The article opens up describing the religious faith of some great scientists. It may be a necessary facet of the study to attract the interest of great thinkers. How many would be sufficiently interested in a sterile physics to invest great amounts of time and effort to figure out, perhaps, how to make a bomb to blow up lots of people?
Taking the vital things out of physics, ethics, society, etc. can make such a thing simply evil.