Historically, were religious leaders right in their attempt to regulate science?

         After having lived in a very liberal place, I watched as people so easily adopt some of these universal truths – such as post modernism, as I have been discussing in depth in another post. There are a lot of very advanced logical thinkers who consider themselves scientists which condemn the idea of belief system / absolute truth/ or the case for a one true God. I have wondered what the root cause for this disconnect was….

         If you think about it back in the Middle Ages when science seemed to be going against the theological doctrines, scientists were excommunicated from the church. Some of them were punished by the pope with severe indictments. People were burned alive by religious followers and as a result science retaliated and disconnected its self from the church. It is a curious thing to ponder, if this potentially could be the reason that there is such a large disconnect between God, creation, science and people believing in a God who created even you and I. Could this be the reason people are far more accepting of a few particles supposedly forming this world rather than a creator? It takes God right out of the equation because scientists did not want to be hindered in their own pursuit of understanding the world around them. In the name of man wanting to protect their “religion”, they pushed science right out the door; therefore, God was no longer considered as part of the equation but rather a separate entity outside the realm of science. In this case, man was wrong not God. The consequences of man holding back science really showed their own lack of faith in God! Ultimately, science does not refute there is a God it simply points you to Him!!! It is an interesting thing if you think about it - when someone doesn’t understand something about a particular thing they will try to ignore it or control it rather than understand it. The progression of science is/was revolutionary which in the religious leaders eyes was a threat predominantly out of fear or rather more appropriately fear of change. We work out of a closed system. In the same way, men have tried to control science - is it possible that men are trying to do the same thing to God, in a reverse fashion?? In essence, they really don’t seem to understand God because they haven’t really sought to gain that understanding. The question is: are we trying to control or ignore God rather than understand Him?

"Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, mitigate, counteract, or transmute."
Stephen A. Diamond, 1996, Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic, p. 85