Being religious is not antithetical to science; using supernatural explanations to account for phenomena is. Neither Mendel or Newton did that.
That wasn’t my point, these persons in today’s scientific anti religious climate would have been attacked for having a religious view points which would possibly have undermined their experimentation according to the atheists controlling the scientific leftist hegemony!(look at what happened to E Forest Mimms iii when he expressed a pro life view point in a political setting...his columns were canceled in the Scientific American magazine) Having religious view points caused folks like Newton and Mendel to be scientifically honest in their investigations. Occam’s razor, so highly valued as a scientific tool of reasoning was first developed by William of Ockham...a FRIAR!( you know one of the pro-God, Pro-Christ religious bigots(/sarcasm) that all the modern atheist scientist love to hate!