OK Mr. Murray,
Science is the great destroyer of myth. Genius is the enemy of the Church. "Fear an ignorant man more than a lion" Turkish Proverb. 
Astronomy devolved back into Astrology, Chemistry devolved back into Alchemy: we need another Bubonic Plague.
The darn fool that invented the telescope was marched through the Church of England's basement of anti-intellectualism: it's torture chambers with dismembered humans in varying degrees of amputation and mutilation. To terrify/silence him and continue the Earth-centric Church endorsed view of the world.
Galileo barfed for days suffering PTSD for the rest of his life similar to witnessing public beheadings every Friday all across Saudi Arabia.
Physics Professor Price caught serious HECK from UAF by revealing Mt. Saint Helens' erupted more tonnage of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide than the entire history of mankind's burning of fossil fuels.
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" (Einstein).