tesla writes:The scientists of today are ignorant of why the greatest minds of mankind believed in God, ...
I doubt that you have any evidence to support this.
tesla writes:They did not choose their beliefs because they were dumb. they chose to believe because they were smart.
It is more likely that they did not choose at all, but were simply raised at a time and place where religious indoctrination was a part of the cultural tradition.
Many of the scientists I have known were Christian. But their religion played no role in their science. They were very effective at compartmentalizing their lives. They did not bring their religion to the science lab, and they did not apply their scientific methods in their churches.
I should add here, that I am only assuming that they were Christian. I did not attempt to discuss religion with them, and they did not attempt to discuss religion with me. Moreover, I will admit that in the two cases where the topic of religion happened to come up, my assumption was probably wrong.
In one case my colleague, who was a regular Church attendee, confided that "it's a bunch of hooey." My best guess is that he was attending Church only as a social event.
In the other case I knew that my colleague regularly attended Church, and was the organist there. A bunch of people in the coffee room were talking - I am not sure what was the general topic. I remember throwing out the rhetorical question "what do you call an atheist who regularly attends Church?" Without hesitation, my colleague replied "The organist."