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This is a follow-up question: A question was recently asked here concerning Climatologists and not being able to pass “real” science

The word “Science” is Latin for “Knowledge”. Science is our society’s collective body of knowledge. My question is, why is there so much hostility towards science, from global warming to evolution to women's reproductive rights?[1][2]

It may be interesting to remember that the Catholic Church just pardoned Galileo. Galileo was tried as a heretic for providing evidence that it was the Earth orbited around the sun. This was considered contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture.

Are most questions in this section all just a religious vs. secular argument? If we do away with science, then won’t we return to the dark ages?

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7067/full/438401a.html
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/politics/28pill.html?_r=1
 
Sorry but your history lesson is wrong. The geocentric model was first thought of 6th century BC, far before the Church, or the government at the time.

The geocentric universe was believed to be real by the consensus of the scholars at that time. There even were actual models showing how it worked.

Galileo was a skeptic who went against the teachings of the government (Church) and was imprisoned for his work.

Galileo brought objective science to the argument, not "science" by vote, or the "consensus". Galileo could back his arguments up with math, today people just guess that it will be warmer in the future without providing the proff of how they got to that conclusion and call that "science".
 
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