You got my point eventually Ed. Historically, the god concept tended to fit in on the basis of discovering why and how "god" made x happen. That everything was to the glory of god was a given, and when superstitious belief ran contrary to what was being observed, it caused problems.

Newton held onto a fixed state hypothesis despite his own work describing a purely relative state universe. It was a couple of hundred years before anybody saw fit to accept the logical relativity arguments.

Galileo may have pissed off the church with his observations and conclusions but he still described it as the work of god.

Darwin struggled with what his work told him, to the point of suppressing it till he saw that someone else had come to the same conclusion....

It is fairly recent that established scientific research, c/w university credibility could dismiss dissent from theological sources.