Not very long ago, the Catholic church
espoused young earth creationism and geocentrism and were quite happy to imprison, exile, excommunicate and / or execute those who deigned to disagree.
At the time, the majority of the science faculty
espoused young earth creationism, so I learned about evolution in the context of Christian apologetics courses, with the presupposition that evolution was incompatible with the Christian faith.
Not exact matches
About one in six of the surveyed teachers
espoused young -
earth creationist views, and most of them taught their students those views.