I've got a problem with that viewpoint. I'm not sure if I'm able to articulate it properly but consider that without Michael Faraday's fathers religion his son

I've got a problem with that viewpoint. I'm not sure if I'm able to articulate it properly but consider that without Michael Faraday's fathers religion his son might not have been born at all, and if he was he might have followed a different path in life, becoming a carpenter or some other mundane profession. You don't get to play the same universe twice over with different pieces with a claim to knowing how that universe would unfold. All this stuff is inter-related and if you change one thing you may change more than you think you do. Science and religion are to some extent in competition, both strive to explain things, the one through the supernatural, the other through reasoning and rigorous experiments. I know which side my bread is buttered on but I'd never stake a claim on editing the past and saying that 'x or y not being religious' would have been good for science or the opposite. That's something that would be very hard to prove.