It is extra difficult for most scientists to believe in God. They are trained to be skeptical and to think in natural, empirical terms. It’s hard enough for a physicist to get to pantheism let alone a personal deity of ancient renown.
I still don’t know what it would take to make a hardened skeptic believe.
I don’t think it is skepticism, except in the Greek sense of the word.
It’s a shame, since it seems scientists are loved most, with gifts to open up the universe and beyond.
I pray he realizes he carried the cross with Christ (such as footprints and realizing the Lord was carrying up, hence the one set of footprints).
He has done much for science and this world, while being a living example (whether acknowledged or not), of what life is capable of... no matter what the world considers worth.
May God bless him and his family.
As C. S. Lewis commented to the effect, the closer the science is to the “real life” that Satan wants to use as a distraction, the harder the case. A sociologist would be a harder case than a mathematician or physicist.