Science vs Religion

In a comment to my article about More on Behind the Hockey Stick, anonymous made the following remarks:

I've been picking up a similar vibe (for the last year or so) on the conflict of science and conservatism. I think here (in the US) it starts with the anti-evolutionists and rolls very naturally to a distrust of global warming scientists.

Once you start rejecting science, why stop?

I would see this is a different light:

• Tecnological superiority through superior scientific research (this leads to military and economic superiority thereby creating global hegemony) versus
• A compliant population through religious control

The fundamental conflicts between these two types of cosmologies cannot be bridged (even though there are those who are trying hard). This widening gap means that the Anglo-American capitalist view of religion as a vital adjunct to the capitalist dominance will succumb to the European view of religion as the arch-enemy of capitalism (after communism, of course). In the Anglo-American world, this alliance between capitalism and religion will not be easily broken.