Factoid: Wiccan shamans tend to be engineers in their day jobs.
It's all about practical magic. Engineers worship at the altar of What Works.
Back in the day, when the best tools you knew of were the bone rattle and shiny stones, that's what you used. Science came along and provided tools to create stronger magic, and yesterday's shamans became today's engineers.
Same as it ever was. The primate brain created engineers. Science wasn't the cause, it was a tool the primate brain could pick up and use. Best one so far, but never say never.