[ndt]

"So how is a belief or lack of belief in God, or acceptance of rejection the ToE, relevant to the discovery of genomes?"

It's not. You might want to tell that to jim35 as he seem to think otherwise.

[metmom]

You need to go back and read jim’s post 65.

He was talking about the men of science who laid the foundations of what we know of as science today.

If you say it’s not germane, then why did you bring it up that the men who discovered genomes *nearly to a man* believed in the ToE? You must have thought it important somehow.