Gotta agree with you there, I've always held the belief that religion has been holding back science in its advancement because important religious figures found the project to be "inhumane", "act against God", "dangerous", etc etc. What's funny is that they're now going to cover their interest in this subject up by stating that "well God gave us the miracle of life here, it's only natural that he did so on other planets aswell", and of course people will buy into it.