Until recent times, creator was a postulate in science. Science itself was an obedience to the mandate from scripture to subdue the creation.
We’re now watching what it looks like without that... and it’s slowly falling apart. One thing that becomes obvious... if you don’t really think God is looking over your shoulder as you do it, honesty becomes only what you think you can put over on your fellow man. Globull warming anyone?
There are still religious scientists, they just don’t include divine intersession as a factor that contributes to results. Indeed, science as a unbiased method for the observation of nature and its capacity for predicting unknown outcomes based on hypothesis and experimentation is quite new.
And by the way, if you need a god looking over your shoulder to keep you from doing bad things, perhaps it’s good that you have one.