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What he meant is: If you want to find out why your car is overheating. You don't go on your knees and pray. You don't open the Bible for an answer. It will not work. Rather go look at the water pump, test it. Check if there is coolant. Follow the water pipes, check for leaks. Check the radiator. Ironically all the mentioned things are designed by science. You'd never build and design a car by prayer. Faith alone would never keep your engine cool. Coolant (normally that green stuff rather than just water) was not designed through faith and prayer. It requires physical characteristics that are always and repeatably the same for all cars. No one would stop at a garage to top up with a bit of miracle before a long trip...

What Richard Lewontin meant is, if you want to get anywhere with the truth for anything especially if you want results at all: "we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." Think about the faith and prayer involved in the following:
Medical science
Biology
Moon landing
Communications satellites
Internal combustion engine
Aircraft
Micro wave oven
the list goes on and on and on and on

It will not work if science had different results for Muslims and Christians. That's what you'd get if you allow a Divine Foot in the door.

If you want to research or design something, you don't open your Bible and cast your eyes to the heaven... That does not yield results. True it makes the primitive and weak sleep better at night.