The word adulterous here is refering to those who are breakers of the First Commandment. Adulterous towards our Creator.
Scientism replaces the Creator.
Exd 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
You sound like my ex-wife and her church friends. They told me I had to give up being a scientist because science was Satanic because it was not in accordance with the literal interpretation of the Bible. Even heard preachers say it is better to be uneducated and poor, but go to heaven than to go to college and lose your salvation. She was very pentacostal.