Stand in Awe

I have heard it said by many people in the past that it must be difficult to appreciate the world and to stand in awe of its creation without believing in the creator himself. The argument is that people who do not believe in God will look around them at nature and have no real appreciation for the beauty of the design.
I say on the contrary, however - religion and a belief in God kills awe.
To back up this bold statement I will not jump to the obvious beauty and simplicity of evolution as I have done in the past as too many people still fail to accept or even understand its true nature. Instead I will deal with an example of much greater simplicity and that in which no man can say he has no belief--the Sun.
If religion were to have had its way, the Sun would have remained a hot glowing ball of light that revolved around the earth once every year and was put there by God to give us light. No more understanding would be necessary. Not exactly the stuff that sends men reeling with awe.

Science on the other hand tells us that the Sun is a burning ball of hydrogen and helium gas with a core, although at a density nearly 15 times greater than lead, undergoing nuclear fusion where hydrogen nuclei are joined together to form Helium nuclei at a temperature of about 15 million degrees Celsius. The Sun's energy output in a second is more than our whole world can use in a year. This ball of gas is big enough to hold over a million Earths in its huge form and of course it is its gravitational pull that controls the Solar System and not ours.
Now which of these understandings of our Sun will fill a man with the greatest awe?