Nothing silly about it all if you expect priests to accept creation as an unguided materialistic process you can forget it. The two fields coexist. Scientists have their head down in the weeds methodically looking at things they can deal with and religious folks look at the bigger picture that includes the spiritual realm.
I quite agree.
The silliness comes into play when some of them think their acquisition of a great deal of knowledge about the weeds entitles them to make grand philosophic statements about meaning and purpose. The scientific method is just not suited to making such determinations.