[SeeSac]

Very short list of Creation Scientists that helped found different branches of Science:

Most of those guys lived in an age when heresy was not only a religious crime, but also a civil offence and a social outrage. Not toeing the 'party line' would result in loss of funding.

[metmom]

Most of those guys lived in an age when heresy was not only a religious crime, but also a civil offence and a social outrage. Not toeing the 'party line' would result in loss of funding.

It's the same story today. Only now it's *science*(peer review panels) doing it and not the church.