Throughout its history the progress of science has been suppressed by those who favor faith over facts. In historic times Galileo was arrested by the Catholic church because his theory of Earth rotating around the sun contradicted faith based doctrines. In modern times the teaching of any field of science that conflicts with the Bible is constantly under attack. In mega churches children are told not to listen to scientists and in more common churches people are fed false information about science to make the Bible sound believable. Taking things a step further many faith based groups are actively working to replace science with faith based claims in public schools just as they do in the countless Christian private schools.

All of this leads to a scientifically illiterate society which dramatically limits the number of educated scientific minds that will be shaping our future and also limits the support and funding received for life improving research.