Not much of a mystery.
People recognize that science has POWER.
Some wish to utilize that power in areas that it is not at all applicable in order to ‘score points’.
Creationists are not content to call themselves Creationists. They think that by criticizing Science that they do not understand they are “Creation Scientists”.
Similarly militant atheists are not content to have a reasonable explanation whereby things can form from natural processes; they must claim that the existence of these natural processes somehow exclude the possibility of God.
The fact that stars and planets form by gravitational attraction in no way removes God as the creator of the heavens and the Earth.
Similarly the fact that species diverge from one another by natural selection of genetic variation in no way removes God as the creator of all living things.
Which if it means theology determines scientific result, they are not scientists. It's the same in the other direction.
Scientists who infer religion from science, Scientistic Religionists, do not understand they've disqualified themselves.
You can't reduce God to science. Whatever science says is "scientifically known to be God" is by definition false. Proper science cannot see God.
One side abuses their knowledge by trying to reduce it to science; the other abuses logic by saying what it cannot see does not exist.