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IMHO, since late 19th century this is no longer an issue, at least, not a major one. On the contrary, some atheists, like Lysenko and Lepeshinskaya in Russia stalled great and reputed genetics research shunning and imprisoning competitors using some slogan-like stupidities, political accusations and data falsifying. To a certain extent, the same happened in China under Mao but this is less known. After the end of Mao's rule this negative influence of religion of belligerent atheism on science has gone, hopefully, forever.
P.S. I am not sure Einstein's (or Mileva's, as some claim) theory suffered that much from religious zealots, although you may be quite right about Newton. Concerning the latter's beliefs, nothing is really clear; there are steady claims that he was a prominent free mason.