So claims our brother allmendeam.
I tend to agree with allmendream on this. From a working scientific viewpoint, metaphysical considerations really are irrelevant. Many people are familiar with the chemical process of cake baking. First, all the reagents are mixed together. Next, they are subjected to high heat that drives the chemical reactions. This process works equally well for Christians of any denomination, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, atheists, or anyone adhering to any other faith. As a scientist, the recipes I mix usually fit into a space smaller than a drop of water, but are equally unaffected by religious faith or considerations.
As a scientist, I am perfectly happy to let people who feel compelled to consider metaphysical matters do so. I'm fairly certain that whatever experiments I do in my test tubes or on my computer are equally non-relevant to their work.
Dear exDemMom, I am perfectly aware that there are differences in fundamental approach as between theoretical scientists and working scientists. (I gather you are a member of the latter category. Fine.)
Theoretical scientists are alway going for the biggest picture they can get. Working scientisists do not much care for big pictures; what they want is reliable working tools derived from the theoretical sciences.
They don't care about the "hows" and the "whys," only about what works.
Of course, some things can work all the time without any reference to the fundamental causality structure of universal Nature (Reality), to the laws, principles, or truths of the Reality as it actually is — which is precisely what makes the tools oh-so fundamentally reliable as dependable working tools in the first place.
Although it appears you have little use for cosmological questions of any description at all, this does not mean that you are relieved from living in this Cosmos. If you are the least bit interested in that subject, then I'd say: You've got to raise up your eyes to a fuller vision.
Otherwise, you may get your "scientific problems" right every time; but you will never understand anything about the world in which you live and work and breathe....
Just a thought, dear exDemMom. Thank you so much for writing!