Oh please. These are popular fictional scientists, not great scientists of our age! Fir real great scientists of our age, go here for starters: http://www.nobelprize.org
It's not just cynics who would say religious belief is apophenic. Since religious belief is completely divorced from evidence, intelligent, well-educated, rational people say religious belief is apophenic!
Nice try at a strawman argument, though. FYI there are more illogical argument techniques described here: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/writing/resources/Identifying%20Illogical%20Arguments.pdf