Why did people oppose science?

Answer 1

It seems to be human nature to fear what you don't understand, which contradicts our equally natural inclination to be explorers. Before science, people believed that the reasons for things like: the sun rising and setting, the tides going in and out, why some people are born with disabilities and others aren't, etc., as being God's work and only He knows why things are the way things are. Now, we know how a great many things work and why and how to make things better, like medicines and cars and computers so we have access to more places and people and things than ever before. And this is all because of science.

Some people still are afraid and don't trust science to have answers (the biggest issue is, of course the actual age of the Earth and how it was made, and how people evolved instead of just appearing in the garden of Eden. Science can co-exist with religion, but not when people don't want to listen to each other.

Answer 2

Only certain people of incomplete knowledge (quacks) think like this. They have the strong ground of 'Big Bang' and 'Red Shift'. Red shift is a bamboozling. In the course of the orbits, heavenly bodies may become distant or near (think of apogee and perigee). This is the maximum for a red-shift. Big-Bang is a perfect fairy tale. Then, there arise a question of the beginning and the end. So, God answered, "I am the beginning and the end". It means, "all is God". This is an amusing thing that the human activities and their developments try to study or analyse the religion, the greatest ism of all isms. Here, we see the importance of religionism. Science is humane, but the universe is divine.