You confuse the attitude of Galileo and Newton toward religion with those of someone like Gould, who reduced religion to personal psychology while science deal with the "real world." Galileo's world view presupposed an orderly universe. just as did his Aristotelan opponents. God was the cause of this order --of the reality they found--and what they did was to express the existing patterns in nature in mathematical terms. Kurt Goedel was more of this mind than someone like Dawkins, whose world view is a product, directly or indirectly of German idealism.
"You confuse the attitude of Galileo and Newton toward religion with those of someone like Gould..."
You are missing my point. I wasn't talking about Galileo and Newton's attitude towards religion (Galileo was a Catholic and Newton was a Unitarian); I was talking about their attitudes toward what was acceptable evidence in a scientific theory. Neither used supernatural causes as evidence. What I said was correct.