The story told is that scientists split the world with priests. So, each would have their own separate domains and not conflict with each other.
However, this story is just a nice sounding story to hide a sinister truth. That a group wanted to get rid of God.
The story is that stupid priests wouldn't hear about "scientific" evidence. However, throughout our history, Priests/monks were the people who studied the universe and laws of nature.
T.H.E.Y. worked out logical sounding fallacies and encapsulated them into stories, and taught them in grade schools. And now, people get really bent out of shape if you even talk near this thing that they "know".
It is almost impossible to talk about the truth. Especially truths that have been well known in the esoteric fields for thousands of years.
Most spiritualists know that we are spirits having a physical experience
Most scientists state that spiritualists are a bunch of pot smoking hippies that are just hallucinating. The thing here is that these "science" thinking people are sure of their view, and so dismiss the other view out of hand.
Of course those who use mind altering drugs will all tell you about amazing trips that they have been on. And if you haven't had any of those yourself, it is really hard to follow their story. That they are just "hallucinating" makes everything make sense. Cause, real is real.
Unfortunately, there are those who have tried both sides. And better than 90% stay on the spiritual side. (the other 10% usually had some serious trauma that makes exploring psychedelics a very painful experience)
The spiritualists, through meditation, have gone out and explored the many layers of our universe. They have all found that thoughts do not happen in the brain. There is something else, out there, that is thinking. And our brains are just processing/receiving those thoughts.
Modern science has shown this with mind scans, but Modern Materialistic Science has shoved this under the rug.
Everyone that has been out there knows that out there is real, and what we describe as "reality" is so much less real. Like a projection, or a dream.
The split, and why it happened
It happened with Copernicus. He put the sun at the center of the universe, and then wrote a book, where he argued with the pope and made him to look like a fool.
It sorta seems logical to have the sun at the center of the solar system, and all the planets going around in ellipses. However, the reality is not so neat.
If you accurately plot the paths of the planets around the sun, you find that they are not perfect ellipses. And especially Mercury, which properly modeled by Newton's or Einstein's theories. Nothing involving gravity (based on mass) holds up to any of the planet's orbits.
Further, the flat plane that most science books show as our solar system does not hold up. Because we can see the planets all year round. They aren't ever behind the sun. And their path in front of the sun is a saw-toothed pattern. Not a smooth line. There is a lot more to learn about our solar system.
If you look at the orbits of planets from the viewpoint of earth, they make splendid, wonderful flower like patterns. And, you really miss this very important piece of our interactions with the other planets, if you put the sun at the center of the solar system.
Anyway, this was the first "story" that was told that led to the split of physics and metaphysics. And, one that every child who has gone through schooling believes, without question. And it is a good thing that they don't question it, because there are soooo many holes in the theories.
Sooo, Copernicus' story is the one that we remember, and think is correct. And then the "scientists" decided to split reality into physics and metaphysics. The scientists would be in charge of physics, and the priests would be in charge of metaphysics. And now, God could be written out
The Physics-Metaphysics continuum
In truth there is no separation between physics and metaphysics. In fact, it is a continuum. And, we really can't do science without the metaphysics. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. And there are many layers that make up this experience.
So many pieces go into making that tree, you see, over there, into something that seems real and continuous. There is a part of you that is focusing on maintaining that tree. And, the collective, the group of beings that are experiencing the same world, are all focusing on maintaining that tree, so much that the tree has consciousness.
Modern Materialistic Science claims the tree is real, and the thoughts are some hocus-pocus. And won't even acknowledge the higher truths. And reality keeps showing them that it is not quite real. Things change slightly between one experiment and the next. But, those Modern Materialistic Scientists put this down to human memory fallibility.
Buddhist monks have a saying: "When you start out, clouds are clouds and mountains are mountains. But soon, you discover that clouds are not clouds and mountains are not mountains. When you get to the end of your journey, clouds are once again clouds, and mountains are once again mountains."
And this is often quite literal. Like, you find the mountain not there, and replaced by "someone" who is meditating on being a mountain. You know, like, the kind of trip where you are not sure the ground is there any more. But you haven't taken any drugs.
So, to go forward in science, we will need to accept that the physical to the metaphysical is a continuum, and that we have to learn about things on many levels. (because we are going to go into areas where we change chemistry, by changing the base state. As in, bombs do not explode in our village)
T.H.E.Y. have done a good job of writing God out of existence. And many people have fallen for it. These atheists have taken (fake) logic as their god.
To give an example of this false logic is the "Big Bang". Where, scientists go back, closer and closer to the beginning explaining each step, and if you just forget about the first step, where something comes from nothing, then it is all logically sound. "Just give us one miracle, and we'll explain the rest" is Modern Materialistic Science. But, if you are forced to include the very first step, then the logic falls apart.
Another example is (large scale) evolution. Science says we evolved from monkeys, because they see that we are similar, and so, that must have, long ago, evolved. The problem is, we do not have evidence of this. We seemingly have small scale evolution, but these might just be genes that activate from external conditions and the DNA really never changed.
But, back to large scale evolution: There is no missing link. There is a missing chain. We have nothing in the middle. It would be easier to explain that some extraterrestrial aliens came down and did genetic experiments on earthlings. However, the Modern Materialistic Scientists believes in evolution. (so that God doesn't have to be part of the equation)
In order to go forward in science, we are going to have to put God back into the equation. We can no longer go around thinking that we are smart based on our fouled logic.
(And, of course this means that religion will change radically. No longer can we allow fouled logic in our study of the divine either)