The contrast between cleverness of this form and religion resonates with me as someone who's gone from atheism to deep appreciation of the truth of religion.
Our love of our own cleverness is the ego's attempt to assert its relevance. "I am smart. I can figure out the world on my own. I am right in what I think and believe" whereas religion puts us in our place, as mortal and limited beings in an infinite and eternal universe, whose knowledge and even theoretical ability to grasp the ultimate truth is limited.
I haven't encountered religion to claim to have all the answers. I have seen it deeply acknowledge man's limitations and the resultant profound awe of the mystery.
The poster and you are talking about different things. You are describing the reaction of a class of practitioners and he is describing the reaction of a different class of approachers. You have identified two different real profiles.
I haven't seen religion truncate the search for truth. In my understanding, many of the men to whom we owe our understanding of the world were religious.
Newton and Darwin were driven to understand how G-d implements his designs.
The Big Bang was theorized by a Catholic priest scientist who was looking for (and found) the moment of creation. Edward Hubble who proved the big bang through observation was a deeply religious Christian.
Our love of our own cleverness is the ego's attempt to assert its relevance. "I am smart. I can figure out the world on my own. I am right in what I think and believe" whereas religion puts us in our place, as mortal and limited beings in an infinite and eternal universe, whose knowledge and even theoretical ability to grasp the ultimate truth is limited.