Newton and Halley shook up the Vatican something fierce . . .
Can't do that, without offending a deity somewhere. Creationists can get equal time when they pay for it. Cosmos is a commercial venture.
To me, Jody, the "attack" seemed to be against the hopelessness of theological fanaticism. Our universe manages to "operate on schedule," but merely as explained in Newton's eventual laws of motion, which he he divined in his youth, but almost failed to even record for posterity, eventually scribbled out in the last decade of his long life.
And in the end, box office proceeds always = squat.