I don't blame them for an instant. And the formation of an organisation called the Royal Society - a group of learned men in England whose ideas became the basis for many of our current beliefs, both scientific and otherwise. The school of thought that became the legacy of the Royal Society is commonly known as Cartesian Dualism or the Newtonian Paradigm, names referring to two of it's principal creators - Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton. It was not created by the Royal Society, but it was their influence that made it the mainstay of todays scientific community. Fundamental to what we now regard simply as 'science' are the concepts of reductionism and empiricism.
Empiric science is a science that is experimentally reproducible.
The need for experimental reproducibility is today the cornerstone of scientific method. A hypothesis is developed. It is tested experimentally and then other scientists reproduce the tests. If, from examining the results of the experiments, the hypothesis appears to be valid, a theory is developed. Reductionism refers to the notion that we make comprehend something's true nature by examining its component parts.