One thing about evangelical fundamentalists: Once they form a grudge, they don't let up.
Evangelicals are now often perceived as being anti-science, but that was not always true. In the 18th and 19th centuries, they pursued investigation of the physical world with vigor. If, indeed, all around us was God's work, exploring and understanding what he had accomplished was divine work. George Marsden, the foremost historian of modern evangelical thought and himself a practicing member, wrote, "[T]he millenarian's view of Scripture was, in effect, modeled after the Newtonian view of the physical universe. Created by God, it was a perfect self-contained unity governed by exact laws which could be discovered by careful analysis and classification."
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