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It's not as simple as a black and white religion vs. science situation, but you can see where there have been rather serious problems. I've never seen atheist fundamentalists hold up scientific progress. Religion is uniquely dogmatic and as such will always have elements that are strongly conservative.
Remember when I mentioned the 50% number? Around 40% believe in theistic evolution, which doesn't believe in abiogenesis (the origin of life). Only about 9% believe in real evolution and abiogenesis. 9% is about the amount of Americans that aren't religious or pseudo religious. I can't prove that the relationship between statistics is causal, but it sure as hell is correlative.
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