It's “common knowledge” that science and religion are locked in perpetual conflict. After all, didn't people, informed by their religion, believe that the Earth was flat well into the Middle Ages or even later? Wasn't Copernicus hounded by Christians for demoting the Earth from its privileged place at the center of the cosmos? Didn't the Church torture Galileo for defending heliocentrism? As it happens, none of these stories are accurate.
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