Re: “But with science, rather than making up some deity to explain it all away, we just say we don’t know.”
Actually, people who claim to be scientists, often don’t just say, “we don’t know,” but rather, “we may not know, but we do KNOW it can’t be God.”
I’m not saying that that is what you claim, but I would just suggest that the belief that God created the universe is not “making up some deity to explain it all away” - rather, the other way around, that the existence of the universe points to the possible existence of God. After all, doesn’t the Big Bang imply a Big Banger, or at least that possibility?
Yes, there seems to be a concerted effort to chill theism and usurp its place, not just work alongside of it.
And usually the replacement proposed is a much worse clumsy bum than most churches could be, too. It is not afraid to posit purposes of humanity in the next breath after saying it believes there is none.
Here is where righteous indignation has a place and if “scientists” get all huffy about it, too bad.
I have read thousands of scientific publications. I have never read anything like you describe.