sure they are... one can live their entire lives supporting the scientific method...yet have faith there is something beyond that. much of science relies on faith...faith in answers to questions that are being posed within the confines of the scientific method..and faith in progress to make a better world. i can tell you that scientists don't have a nonemotional response to their subject matter, (at least much of the time). they can be passionate about their studies. it is like looking for a cure to a disease...they have hope and furthermore one might say faith that a solution exists. and a number of things which were once considered to be magical or supernatural have been revealed by science for their reality. there is a lot of crossover between the supernatural and science. i just feel they are concepts, (science and religion), that are processed in different was. just as their is no scientific way to prove who makes the best chocolate cake empirically, there may not be a scientific method to discover a number of truths, if in fact those truths exist. and lastly, most true scientists, though they have their own opinions and can be absolute in them, often will admit the limitations of their own knowledge and the truth that they could be wrong.