It is unfortunate that biology news has the capacity to cause such a shitstorm. Imagine if this sort of thing happened every time there was a new article about NASA discovering some new property of Saturn or something.

I guess we should be thankful that most religious have only chosen biology as a good place for a last stand in defense of a "God of the Gaps". Science discussion would be far shittier if they did this to every biology and chemistry discussion...

Arguably, the religious have chosen to pick on other sciences. Climate science, for instance. Hence, the GP's comment.

Maybe, is that really a religion thing though?

Sadly, yes. I've heard of some who believe that nothing man can do can possibly damage or destroy Earth before it's time for Armageddon, because man is unimaginably weaker than Earth's creator. Or, who believe that Earth was made for man, and thus will always have enough resources and never become inhospitable.