Although this is for LoudMouth I thought I would put my 2 cents in as well.
There is very good reason to include both historical religion ideas and other philosophies into science training. Science is based on a philosophy that the world is knowable and understandable and can be analysed. That's a Christian idea you're welcome.
No, this is not a christian idea. One of the more dismaying things about christianity is its subtle philosophy that it can steal and then proclaim ownership of just about any idea. You see it where christians claim that the constitution is a christian document. You see it with christmas and the claim that Jesus is the reason for the season (and he is not). And you see it here with your claim that Science is somehow predicated on christianity. It is most definitely not. Indeed, Science is the antithesis of christianity. More below.
You may say "Duh" but this is a very NEW IDEA for humanity.
Seeing as how humanity is some 100,000 years old, just about every idea is new to humanity.
It's worth getting an education about the field you have chosen to study including it's history. As you can tell from this forum, many people have had training in science, and are clueless about conflicting ideas.
See, right here. I can tell that you do not have any significant training in the Sciences. In my undergraduate courses in Chemistry and Physics there were many hours spent on the history of what we were learning. We learned about phlogiston and alchemy. For you to say that this history is not covered in Science classes only indicates that you have not taken them. You may wish to actually know something about a topic before you make such comments.
Second, we learned that Science did not move forward until enough people could remove superstition from their thinking. Definitely the opposite of christianity. Take Alchemy. Alchemy involved chants to invoke the proper supernatural assistance to make a chemical reaction happen properly. It wasn't until these superstitious chants were removed from consideration that Chemistry could move forward, because otherwise odd results were just blamed on incorrect or poorly done incantations.
And that is true of just about all the Sciences. Until the superstitions could be removed, it was impossible to move forward. And christianity is all about the superstition. In both the old and new testament there is a reliance on astrology. Genesis says the planets were put in the sky as signs. The Magi used astrology to find Jesus, so the Bible says. Christian reliance on superstition had to be removed to go forward. At best you could say that some christians actually realized this and were able to shed at least some of their superstition to make progress.
This makes them hostile to anyone who doesn't think like they do.
No, we are hostile to people who do not know what they are talking about and refuse to bring evidence and reason to the discussion. You keep missing that point.
Being hostile to people who have differing views
is not good science.
Nope, it is not about that. See above. It is NOT about what you say. It is about what you bring along with it, which is nothing.
