"Belief in God restricts your understanding of the natural world in that it superimposes an utterly implausible explanation for it that is not only superfluous but which is intellectually-stunting".

While it can., and likely does in some cases...this generalized statement is nowhere universally true.

I submit there are many who have a belief in a God that have a similar interest in the natural world, and science that you seem to limit to those who do not believe in a God.

I suggest that this limited scope of understanding of the diversity of peoples, those who have a belief in a God and those who do not, is just as intellectually-stunting as the case you describe describe, in what clearly, though wrongly, seems to be an elitist fantasy.