There was a lot to process in this talk. Before this lecture I also held the idea that science and religion were never together and constantly, as it was put, at war. But the examples that were given show that the church actually encouraged scientific advancement in the early years as the only people who were “scientists” were priests or people very involved with the church. I was surprised to hear how Copernicus and Kepler were encouraged to publish the ideas that were discovered / created. The most interesting one that I heard was Galileo. From what we are taught in elementary school, Galileo was arrested and put under house arrest because of how his ideas opposed the catholic church. I was surprised that was not the whole story. It was fun to hear that he just had a massive ego and just disrespected the Pope to earn his house arrest. All of this being said, there might not have been a divide between church and science when science first started becoming a real term, but in this day I do still believe that the two are in conflict. Not at war, but there are definitely problems, in the most vaguest term, between the two ideas.
I wouldn’t argue with your point that the two have some serious difficulties in modern times. Of course, there are plenty of reasonable people in the middle who see the value of the two separate viewpoints as well. In my own opinion, I think literalism on the religious side and arrogance of knowing it all on the scientific side are pretty strong impediments to ever merging the two again, like they may have been during the Renaissance.