It's the same motivation behind these threats and these efforts to inhibit scientific progress as have always plagued mankind. Like burning scientists at the stake for saying the earth is round, and again for saying earth orbits the sun. The efforts to combat the teaching of evolution because science debunks creationism.
Long story short, the more people learn the less superstitious the population becomes and the less power churches have over the people.
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Date: 2008-09-10 01:54 am (UTC)Long story short, the more people learn the less superstitious the population becomes and the less power churches have over the people.