When did it become the norm for religious fanatics to attack scientific theories?
As far as I can tell, it has always been the norm, which is quite a shame if you think about it. Religion has the potential to do so much good yet fails disastrously time and time again, because once you believe you have the word of god in your head, you are immune to suggestions to the contrary, and your ability to make rational decisions is badly compromised. The current scientific theory under attack is evolutionary biology, and in certain extreme cases, any and all scientific knowledge that contradicts the idea that the earth was created by a supreme being in the last few thousand years. The actual time the earth was created varies from religionist to religionist and seems (as far as I can tell) to depend on just exactly how many hundreds of years people used to live back when the characters in the bible were walking around. I really don’t know why they don’t just say “Noah was actually four million years old when he died, so this fits in perfectly with accepted scientific evidence
