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I never could understand why the scientific explanation of the way things are had to interfere with ones faith in God.

I guess it is because I was raised RC(the original fundamentalist Christian religion) and not into one of the newer Christian faiths.

Yes the R.C. church did persecute people like Galileo etc., but have since seen the error of their ways.

You left out the fact that RC gave us one of the truly great leaders of the Twentieth Century, Carol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II. I was raised prot in New England and I am a lifelong atheist, but if there is one person whose life could test my non-belief, it would be him. The greatness of Carol Wojtyla's intellect, his vast knowledge, and amazing charisma will forever intrigue me. How could such a man be wrong in believing? As long as he lives in my consciousness there will be an asterisk beside my atheist label. The RC Church has traditionally been a vehicle for higher learning and philosophical and theological inquiry. (the conduit for classical learning through the Dark Ages to modern times) I was raised to admire the Jesuit Order before they veered so far to the left. RC is the original "Big Tent," including all the best and worst of religion. The RC will always be welcoming to knowledge, even during the Inquisition the resistance often came from within the Church.

Are you intimating that someone of a Christian faith, or an organized Christian Faith is persecuting people who believe in Darwinian evolution?

Oh, by the way, RC is actually the original large-scale organized apostasy FROM the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 3). There were independent and autonomous Christian congregations with Spirit-filled evangelical pastors already winning tens of thousands people (Roman-Greko Pagans, Jews, Helenists, others) to Jesus Christ and producing meticulous copies of the Scriptures all over south eastern and south central Europe long before there were any councils of the type (e.g. Nicea) that laid the foundation for the RC religious system.