They had astrology, not astronomy.
It wasn't astrology that allowed the Egyptians to build monuments precisely oriented to certain astronomical markers. Their reasons for building those temples and tombs may have been superstitious, but their construction was quite scientific.
They had alchemy, not chemistry.
Advances in what we now call materials science and applied chemistry were being made worldwide, centuries before your religion existed. Prayer will not find the proper proportion of metals to combine when creating alloys. The scientific method will. You can say the same of dyemaking, glassmaking, or distillation.
Synthetic chemistry was not well-developed in antiquity because the nature of matter was very poorly understood. Alchemists tried to transform matter, but instead of working to better understand the nature of matter, most filled that gap in their knowledge with superstition. Modern chemistry only came about when alchemy shed its mystical roots.
the biblical concept that the world was created, thus understandable, searchable, knowable, consistent,
That is not a biblical concept. Creation myths are ubiquitious, and their existence is by no means necessary for humans to realize the consistent, discoverable, natural processes that govern the universe. One needs only observe nature.
When humans fabricate explanations for why the universe behaves as it does, you get a creation myth. When humans do the difficult work of discovering those explanations, you get a scientific theory. The concept of "God" is nothing more than a crutch for the weak-minded and intellectually lazy.
