It's not who owns the science but who listens to the evidence. Religions and dictatorships usually put ideologies in the first place and then ignore and forbid evidence that proves them wrong.
Like many Christians insist that Adam must have existed, that Noah's flood really happened, or that shroud of Turin was really Jesus funeral shroud or that blood of St. Januarius really turns into rocks and then fluid, etc. and ignore all the evidence that contradicts their dogma and persecute the scientists.
Like many Christians insist that Adam must have existed, that Noah's flood really happened, or that shroud of Turin was really Jesus funeral shroud or that blood of St. Januarius really turns into rocks and then fluid, etc. and ignore all the evidence that contradicts their dogma and persecute the scientists.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
