Why DO conservatives hate science so much?

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15. I have a friend who "doesn't believe in science"

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because “they are always telling us different things”, ie the explanations change over time. I had to very patiently explain to him how this is the whole premise on which science was built; hypothesize, theorize, test, refine hypothesis, get peer reviewed verification of experiment results, etc. etc. For a scientist, proving a theory wrong is often as important as finding it true, because it means you are one step closer to understanding the nature of the problem.

Religion, by contrast, is the exact opposite. It presents ancient texts as absolute proof and no one is allowed to question the “word of god”. It was a major shift in thinking for the Roman Catholic Church to admit maybe the universe doesn’t revolve around the earth, and the imprisonment of Galileo for heresy before a simple scientific fact could be accepted as truth.