[DesScorp]

"Any evidence for this claim? Numbers on the table."

Surveys vary. At best, 60 percent of scientists are atheists. At worst, 93 percent are. Depends on which stats you believe. But no one seriously doubts that a majority of scientists don't believe in God. In college, my old Chemistry prof confirmed that most of his colleages were atheists. While there are some prominent nobel-winning scientists that believe in God, professional science increasingly ridicules anyone who does.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

At best, 60 percent of scientists are atheists.

I think this is what you are referring to.

Despite such affirmations, however, 55% of scientists hold a naturalistic and atheistic position on the origins of man, according to the random survey of 1000 persons listed in the 1995 American Men and Women of Science.

That's a badly phrased question. It's possible to believe in a naturalistic position of the origins of man, while still believing in a hands-off God.

At worst, 93 percent are.

The survey was of members of the National Academy of Science. The members have to be nominated and elected, which would tend to create a bias.

I'm not surprised that scientists tend to believe in religion, less than the general population.... after all, if you don't believe in religion, you're going to tend to gravitate towards professions that don't involve it. However, give the bad phrasing in the first survey and the bias in the latter, I suspect that slight more than half of all scientists in the U.S. believe in some sort of deity.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Neither link supports your numbers.