History tells a more complicated story.
That many contemporary scientists make room for God in their understanding of the cosmos should hardly be surprising. Only in the West, and only after the French Enlightenment in the 18th century, did the votaries of science and religion drift into separate ideological camps. History tells a different, more complicated story. In the ancient world, religious myth invested nature and the cosmos with divine emanations and powers. But this celestial pantheism did not prevent sober observation of the heavens and sophisticated mathematical calculations.