So, for an average scientist God is important? Nice. That explains why I hate modern science, which is full of hypocrisy.
What? What does this have to do with God, unless you're afraid that some kid will be able to show your concept of deity impossible because it features some trivial contradictions.
You don't seem to understand what science is - it's a methodology which allows one to define, test, falsify theories. "Reality" is just what I see.
That's a limited point of view. For me, reality is what I obtain by deduction and induction through senses and thought. If my inductive beliefs tell me that a star exists some million light years from home, I don't have a problem assuming that, but if you only went by your senses, it would just be a tiny blip of light and nothing more. "Cantor's obsession with mathematical infinity and God's transcendence eventually landed him in an insane asylum."
Just understand someone's work by itself and judge it with your own mind. You cannot take others beliefs as your own - that's dumb - you have to understand what they are and you can only take them once you understood them. Cantor did pioneer an important mathematical technique - diagonalization and whatever his personal problems and beliefs is irrelevant to the validity of his mathematical work, even if motivated by non-mathematical goals. A site full of crazy theories and unconfirmed data! What could be better?...
Nobody is going to chew the food for you. Believing in science because by authoritarian argument is wrong, instead you should read and understand something by yourself and then judge if it's true or not. However, if you do insist on the authoritarian argument, it's not like the people that wrote that work are unknown and you cannot check their credentials and reputations: almost all are professors and have Ph. d's., and more than half are even well-known within their fields. A shiny sci-fi novel! Even better than arxiv.org! Thank you, honorable rabbi, I'll study it like Torah.
I figured that if you're not educated enough to understand some of those papers (even though some are not hard at all to understand), a novel from a good hard sci-fi author on the subject would at least make it easier for you to understand certain concepts. The author is so serious about his work being as accurate as possible that he even wrote a manual on general realitivy and quantum mechanics to supplement some of his novels. He's also known to have written some Loop Quantum Gravity papers - this isn't your average fiction writer, but an actual scientist with good physics and mathematics background.
And I will repeat it again - even if some author was some bum living under a bridge, that would not diminish the validity or invalidity of some work - the work must always be judged on its own merit.