The answer may surprise you.

The Scientific Revolution that occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries had a significant impact on human history. It brought about the birth of modern science and the scientific method. This period saw the contributions of great individuals like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and many others who were not only pioneers of science but also believed in Christian theism.

Here are some examples:

William Harvey, who influential contributions in anatomy and physiology, wrote in Exercises, “We acknowledge God, the supreme and omnipotent creator, to be present in the production of all animals, and to point, as it were, with a finger to his existence in his works” (Exercise 54) and Harvey saw his work as illuminating God’s handiwork (https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/news/illuminating-gods-handiwork-why-we-study-william-harvey).

Niccolò Cabeo  who discovered two types of electric charge was also a Jesuit priest (https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/physics-biographies/niccolo-cabeo)

Rene Descartes was an extremely devout Christian binding faith and reason intimately together (https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi3151.htm)

Nicholas Copernicus said, “[It is my] loving duty to seek the truth in all things, in so far as God has granted that to human reason.” (https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/scholarsandscientists/nicholas-copernicus.html)

Andreas Vesalius was a devout Catholic who advanced our understanding of the human anatomy (https://catholicscientists.org/scientists-of-the-past/andreas-vesalius/)

John Napier was a noted mathematician and theologian who wrote a commentary on the Bible in Scotland. Even the renown atheist of his day, David Hume, lauded Napier’s genius calling him one of the greatest men Scotland ever produced (https://www.christianheritageedinburgh.org.uk/2016/08/23/john-napier-1550-1617/)

I could go on but these brief examples establish the point – the scientific revolution and those who followed were not anti-religious free thinkers. Most were theists and it was their theism that lead them in their search for truth. Even in the 19th -early 21st centuies we find leading scientists who were committed Christian theists. Planck, Maxwell, Faraday, Godel, Kelvin, Friedmann, Lemaître, Collins, and Maldacena to name just a few. A more exhausted list can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology

One of the reasons is because Christianity, contrary to pop-culture’s claim, believes that reason and faith are not mutually exclusive and are tools which lead to discovery and truth.

“There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”

Francis Bacon

Now some will undoubtedly think I am overstating the case and that the scientific revolution came in spite of Christian theism. However, there has been (to quote Dr. Stephen Meyer in Return of the God Hypothesis) “. . . a chorus of twentieth and twenty-first-century historians, philosophers, and sociologist of science tell(ing) a significantly different story (than does atheism) . . . (and that) these historians note that belief in a God – and Christianity specifically – played a decisive role in the rise of modern science during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.” (Return of the God Hypothesis, pp. 28-29).

Meyer also lists several historians of science such as Herbert Butterfield (The Origins of Modern Science), A. C. Crombie (The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo, vol 2), Michael B. Foster (Creation, Nature, and Political Order in Philosophy), Loren Eiseley (Darwin’s Century), David Lindberg (Medieval Science and Religion), Owen Gingerich (God’s Universe), Reijer Hooykaas (Religion and the Rise of Modern Science), Robert Merton (Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England), Pierre Durham (The System of World), Colin Russell (The Conflict of Science and Religion; Cross-Currents), Alfred North Whitehead (Science and the Modern World), Peter Hodgson (“The Christian Origin of Science” in The Roots of Science and Its Fruits; Theology and Modern Physics), Ian Barbour (Religion and Science), Christopher Kaiser (Creation and the History of Science), Holmes Rolston III (Science and Religion), Steve Fuller (Science vs Religion?), Peter Harrison (The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science; The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science), and Rodney Stark (For the Glory of God).

In fact, in describing the origin of modern science, Eiseley wrote: “the sheer act of faith that the universe possessed order and could be interpreted by rational minds . . . The philosophy of experimental science . . . began its discoveries and made use of its method in the faith, not the knowledge, that it was dealing with a rational universe controlled by a Creator who did not act upon whim nor interfere with the forces He had set in operation” (Darwin’s Century, p. 62 taken from Meyer Return of the God Hypothesis, p. 28 fn 19).

In an attempt to dislodge Christianity from the scientific revolution (as well as western civilization and education systems) some resort to the Galileo myth that Christianity was anti-science. The claim is that Galileo was tried for heresy because of his scientific views. However, this is debatable and had more to do with his approach and insults Galileo leveled against certain people in power. This, of course, does not justify a trial – but it also is not the anti-science misconception that is popular today. As Guy Consolmagno and Christopher M. Graney noted in their 2020 article “What the story of Galileo gets wrong about the church and science” America The Jesuit Review, “Galileo’s story is certainly not one of church versus science. But Galileo’s trial was indeed a terrible injustice. Historians debate the root of that injustice. Some blame the personalities involved. Others cite the political and economic pressures involving the Holy See and the wealth of the Medici family, represented by Grand Duchess Christina. Still others cite the upheaval of the Thirty Years War, which reached its peak during the time of Galileo’s trial. All these pressures were real. None justified a heresy trial.” (https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2020/09/18/what-story-galileo-gets-wrong-about-church-and-science). In fact, the authors conclude, Pope Urban VIII “was himself a Galileo man.”

Also see:

400 Years of Galileo: Myths, Facts and Influence: https://www.iwu.edu/news/2009/fea_Galileo_00609.html

The Enduring Lesson of the Galileo Myth: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/galileo-myth/

Galileo And The ‘Myth” That Won’t Go Away: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2016/04/17/galileo-and-the-myth-that-wont-go-away/?sh=37c9d0c61e7f

The Galileo Controversy: https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-galileo-controversy

The Truth About Galileo: https://www.simplycatholic.com/the-truth-about-galileo/

This OP, of course, does not prove Christianity nor does it prove theism. But that is not the point.  This is only meant to show that modern science, the scientific revolution and the scientific method are all founded by those who claimed Christian theism, that it was theism that motivated such scientists. Pretend as one wishes, modern science (and eduction in general) owes a debt to theism.

For more on theism, the scientific revolution, and modern science see:

The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution: https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-76/christian-face-of-scientific-revolution-did-you-know.html

How Christianity Gave Rise to Modern Science: https://www.crossway.org/articles/how-christianity-gave-rise-to-modern-science/

How Did Christianity Influence The Scientific Revolution: https://www.ipl.org/essay/How-Did-Christianity-Influence-The-Scientific-Revolution-F33CZVM428TT

Science and Christian Faith: Conflict or Cooperation: https://www.cslewis.org/journal/science-and-christian-faith-conflict-or-cooperation/

The Scientific Revolution: https://blog.hillsdale.edu/dialogues/the-scientific-revolution-by-and-for-christians

Medieval Christianity and the Rise of Modern Science: https://biologos.org/articles/medieval-christianity-and-the-rise-of-modern-science

How Christianity Kick-Started Modern Science: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/how-christianity-kick-started-modern-science