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This must have been pointed out before, but I haven't seen it.

Some 500 years ago, while Christianity insisted that the sun revolved around the earth, Copernicus offered the "Heliocentric THEORY" that the earth actually revolved around its own axis and orbited around the sun. The church opposed this view.

A hundred years later when Galileo proved that Copernicus was right, the Church, citing the Bible that the earth was stationary, threated Galileo with torture and death. He recanted his "theory."

For generations thereafter, Protestant and Catholic denominations denounced the Copernican theory as contrary to scripture.

This seems parallel with what is going on today. Christians find evolution contrary to scripture. It they'd had the power, no doubt they would have forced Darwin and others to renounce the theory of evolution.

Evolutionary theory is comparable to Galileo's claim that planets circle the sun.

Assuredly, science, which relies on observation, is right. But religion, which relies on magical writings, sees its survival at stake and is desperate to defend its beliefs.

Gar

Yep, thats pretty much it.