Would you not agree that certain dogmas, just by their approach on analyzing the sacred scriptures, result in a higher degree of clerical classes that tend to use a proto-scientific method to the research of knowledge?
Europe regressed during the middle ages, under Christian domination. It's only when the Church's grip loosened that it could finally progress again. So if anything, it seems pagan polytheism was better fitted to scientific curiosity than the strict monotheism that succeeded it, policed beliefs and silenced most original ideas for centuries.