No the money is NOT in the begging passing the plate 'guilt' business but in government attachment without ever having to utter a word. The 'system' think has become part of government to help those supposed least fit for survival... First in line are the evolutionist as it is their model that government TAKES first for their system think.
See that first commandment has been perverted from NOT having any 'gods' before the Heavenly Father to not allowing the Heavenly Father to even be represented in their houses of worship called the state of public education. There is NO plate passed it is by law required payment.
The real big money from government grants is going into environmental sciences, military, or NASA, and with the exception of the former, it doesn’t end up in usable funds that, say, a scientist can by a mansion with, grant money goes to research. In the biological sciences, the biggest money is going into genome studies because of drug studies, something you can’t just ‘make something up’ and expect valid results. You don’t get rich by studying fossils or ‘evolution’. If money was the motivating desire, there are a lot of related fields they could easily go into.
At that, interesting note, the one scientist who really has hit it big in the biological science arena is Francis Collins, the head of the human genome project, who, shock, is a Christian. He happens to believe in Theistic Evolution (a more scientific version of ID). He wrote a book, The Language of God, you should check it out.