Sagan and Boyle: A Lesson in Snap Judgements

The late Carl Sagan, in Pale Blue Dot, wrote:

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and
concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than
our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'? Instead they say,
'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.' A
religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as
revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence
and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. "

If Sagan had looked a bit further afield, as far back (and probably further)
as Robert Boyle, he would have found this is not the case. For example, I
find this quotation from the 17th century!:

"When with bold telescopes I survey the old and newly discovered stars and
planets, when with excellent microscopes I discern the unimitable subtility
of nature's curious workmanship; and when, in a word, by the help of
anatomical knives, and the light of chymical furnaces, I study the book of
nature, I find myself oftentimes reduced to exclaim with the Psalmist, How
manifold are Thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast Thou made them all."

Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 - 30 December 1691)

To rephrase Sagan: How is it that people make glib snap judgements without
doing the smallest modicum of research?