Yes, and modern marvels like molecular medicines, antibiotics, instantaneous communication and the computer.
If you are against progress then putting religious “oversight” (i.e. the ability to imprison those who promote ideas you disagree with) over science would be a damn fine way of doing it.
“The myth we have of Galileo is that of a faithless renegade attacked by a church afraid of science. It’s false on all counts. Galileo was a traditional believing Catholic — his daughter was a devout nun — who saw no contradiction between his science and his faith. He had begun to study and write on the Copernican theory and was recognized as the leading astronomer of his day. In 1611, he was honored in Rome for his work, receiving a favorable audience with Pope Paul V, and became friends with Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII, who would celebrate the astronomer with a poem.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2253681/posts