There's a difference between "religion" and believing that an intelligent designer is a viable cosmological model.

Teachers and professors teach all sorts of cosmological theories. Whatever new model comes along. If someone suggest there might be an intelligent cosmological model, everyone becomes biased and irrational.

God stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Job 26:7

God stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.