“actually the reverse is true. a more ridiculous assertion, completely ignorant of the history of science, could hardly be imagined.
the greatest scientists and thinkers ever born, people like boyle, faraday, newton, einstein, and i could go on and on described their work as attempts to discover the mind of God.”
Likewise, the list of great Athiest fathers of science is very short.
Galileo is a good candidate for it. He professed loyalty to the church, but his arguments reveal a certain cynicism. For example, he accepts that the Bible is infallible, but then says that this means that it can't possibly contradict any scientific finding, and that if it appears to, that just means that it has been misinterpreted, not that he knows anything about it.
1 Corintians 2:14
Pretty much sums it up.
14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.