When Science and Religion Began to Pull Apart

There is no definitive answer to the question posed at left.

Most people would say that, in the West, the division started in the 16th Century with Galileo and Copernicus. Then we had Newton 100 years later, followed by Mendeleev (the periodic table) and Linnaeus (the classification of life forms).  The early 19th Century saw Michael Faraday figure out electricity and magnetism, and the germ theory of disease that came along much later, in the 1880s.

Obviously, there are still crackpots who disbelieve all of this.  Sadly, they are commanding great attention from tens of millions of our country’s idiots and our right-wing politicians whom they elect to represent them.