...Most religious people have no problem with science at all.... If you pop in to a church on Sunday and listen to the sermon, or indeed any of the prayers, it is most unlikely to be about the physical world at all. It is far more likely to be about human relationships, human aspiration and frailty and the examples religion gives people to follow in their lives.Religion is about the interior and subjective in human experience, not the exterior and objective.
That is false. Most (very large majority, nearly all) religious people on this planet have religious beliefs in direct and sometimes dramatic conflict with at least a couple of major, basic, standard, no serious argument exists, theoretical bases and findings of scientific inquiry. Beyond that, their practice of relying on their religion to answer questions and provide description of the world biases them in their confrontations with new information from scientific investigation - they are biased to deny, automatically, new information that conflicts with whatever they have come to believe is the basis of their received religious wisdom. Their religion provides them with justification for that denial, and reassurance in the face of conflicting fact or circumstance of any kind.
Umm. Except that it isn't false at all. It's much as exchemist has said and more. Do you get out of the lab much? The vast majority of people in the world believe in one religion or another. They believe when there is a flood or drought that the victims are being punished, even if they don't quite get why. They believe a god is watching them constantly. They see things like more frequent earthquakes or those holes in Siberia and are sure it's the end of days No use reminding them they thought way back on 9/11 2001 it was the end times. I myself am not that, what to call it, "superstitious", but most people I know are. And yet - and yet, these same people program computers, use cell phones, drive cars, fly in air planes and have surgery should they need it and can afford it and they believe that germs, carcinogens and viruses, but not they are demons. They also believe science has and will solve most of world civilization's problems. This is all very self-contradictory, but there you go. I can't believe I even have to tell you this. Even the Amish will fly to a big city for surgery if they need it. They may be devout and set in their ways, but they're not stupid or impratical.
I myself, grew up fully aware and even taught about modern science while at the same time I was "indoctrinated" into the Catholic Church. No priest or nun or especially devout church person I have ever met has never felt any conflict nor were they "biased to deny, automatically, new information that conflicts with whatever they have come to believe is the basis of their received religious wisdom." (as you say) I have also lived among Buddhists, Moslems and devout Jews. I have yet to see someone slam their mobile against the wall and declare it the work of the devil.
So I really don't know where you get this stuff.
My problem is not with science, technology or scientists and the scientific method or scientific thought. It is with condescending SciForum members who think everyone who doesn't see things their way and agree with their supposed unassailable "scientific" views is a primitive "Fundie" that hopefully can be rehabilitated and brought around to rational thought - or if they can't, why then they can burn in their hell of ignorance and scientific illiteracy.
Who do you think you're talking to? You seem to think your debating with The Clampetts!
... Gotta go now, Jethro wants his vittles.