> The structure of DNA was seen in a vision in James Watson's dream

I believe this is apocryphal. Watson likely said this because he stole Rosalind Franklin's research.

I disagree. What he stole was the pictures she took. He really did come up with the structure.

Mind you he was helped by a nice coincidence. Franklin knew all 230 space symmetry groups, and so had to sort through them. Watson only really knew one - his PhD thesis was on a protein with the same group as DNA.

I can only think of that example because it’s the only one I know of where the scientist admitted to something divine.

This is probably something I need to research more, because the questions scientists are dealing with are too deep to ignore the one big question, and I wonder who struggled with it.