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[Oooookay... I guess that's why they forced Galileo to recant the scientific theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun instead of vice versa, under pain of torture.]

Point 1, I said "as we know it today" and you bring up Galileo?

Yes I do. "As we know it today" is the result of a few hundred years of development (and resistance/suppression) -- or were you unaware of that? Or are you actually going to try to claim that the roots of science "as we know it today" only go back a dozen or so years?

A lot has happened since then.

Yes, much of it the same, in kind if not degree.

Additionally, to say that Galileo was forced to recant because of his science is a gross oversimplification.

No, it's based on the facts of the case -- your own assertion is a gross misrepresentation. From a prior post of mine in response to yet another apologist on this topic:

Not smart. So the Church overreacted and condemned him for heresy. Big mistake, indefensible, but the truth is that Galileo was not quite the "martyr for science" that secularists make him out to be.
This is really splitting hairs. "He wasn't persecuted for advocating science, he was persecuted for raising questions about scripture by advocating science"... Oh, well then, that's *entirely* different...
Unfortunately for such revisionism, there exist extensive records of the condemnations of Galileo and his heresy trial. They make entirely clear that it was specifically his advocacy of the Copernican system which was his primary "crime", and his "heresies" (i.e., believing that observations of nature itself give reliable insights into the workings of the universe) were a result of his daring to practice science in the manner that it is known today.
Papal condemnation/sentencing of Galileo: "Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vaincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, were in the year 1615 denounced to this Holy Office for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the Sun is the center of the world and immovable and that the Earth moves, and also with a diurnal motion; for having disciples to whom you taught the same doctrine; for holding correspondence with certain mathematicians of Germany concerning the same; for having printed certain letters, entitled "On the Sunspots," wherein you developed the same doctrine as true; and for replying to the objections from the Holy Scriptures, which from time to time were urged against it [i.e. for disagreeing with Bible-based criticisms - Ich.] [...] This Holy Tribunal being therefore of intention to proceed against the disorder and mischief thence resulting, which went on increasing to the prejudice of the Holy Faith, [...] The proposition that the Sun is the center of the world and does not move from its place is absurd and false philosophically and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scripture. [...] The proposition that the Earth is not the center of the world and immovable but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is equally absurd and false philosophically and theologically considered at least erroneous in faith. [...] Furthermore, in order to completely eliminate such a pernicious doctrine, and not let it creep any further to the great detriment of Catholic truth, the Holy Congregation of the Index issued a decree which prohibited books which treat of this and declaring the doctrine itself to be false and wholly contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture. [...] Likewise, you confessed that in several places the exposition of the said book is expressed in such a way that a reader could get the idea that the arguments given for the false side were effective enough to be capable of convincing, rather than being easy to refute. [...] We say, pronounce, sentence and declare that you, Galileo, by reason of these things which have been detailed in the trial and which you have confessed already, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspect of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctrine that is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: namely that Sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture. [...] Consequently, you have incurred all the censures and penalties enjoined and promulgated by the sacred Canons and all particular and general laws against such delinquents. [This includes torture - Ich.]
The text of Galileo's recantation also makes entirely clear that it was his SCIENTIFIC VIEW which was his crime, and which he had to renounce:
Under threat of torture, and mindful that the Church had already burned at the stake Giordano Bruno for the same "crime", Galileo publicly renounced his "false" doctrine that the Earth revolves around the Sun: "I, Galileo Galilei, son of the late Vincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, arraigned personally before this tribunal, and kneeling before you [...] I wrote and printed a book in which I discussed this doctrine already condemned, and adduced arguments of great cogency in its favor [horrors! - Ich.], without presenting any solution of these [i.e., without reconciling it with the Church's interpretation of Scripture -- Ich.]; and for this cause I have been pronounced by the Holy Office to be vehemently suspected of heresy, that is to say, of having held and believed that the sun is the center of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the center and moves. [...] with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I abjure, curse, and detest the aforesaid errors and heresies, and generally every other error and sect whatsoever contrary to the said Holy Church; and I swear that in the future I will never again say or assert, verbally or in writing, anything that might furnish occasion for a similar suspicion regarding me"
-- Galileo's forced recantation, June 27, 1633
Galileo's early "heretical" statements included this clear statement of the modern scientific viewpoint:
"The doctrine of the movements of the earth and the fixity of the sun is condemned [by literalists] on the ground that the Scriptures speak in many places of the sun moving and the earth standing still… I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.", "I accepted the Copernican position several years ago and discovered from thence the cause of many natural effects which are doubtless inexplicable by the current theories. [i.e., the new theory better matched and explained the observations - Ich.]" -- Galileo Galilei
Furthermore, one of the more prominent denunciations of Galileo by a high-ranking Church official (prior to his arrest) makes clear that Galileo's primary "crime" was his scientific view itself:
"But to want to affirm that the sun really is fixed in the center of the heavens and only revolves around itself (i. e., turns upon its axis ) without traveling from east to west, and that the earth is situated in the third sphere and revolves with great speed around the sun, is a very dangerous thing, not only by irritating all the philosophers and scholastic theologians, but also by injuring our holy faith and rendering the Holy Scriptures false. [...] And if Your Reverence would read not only the Fathers but also the commentaries of modern writers on Genesis, Psalms, Ecclesiastes and Josue, you would find that all agree in explaining literally (ad litteram) that the sun is in the heavens and moves swiftly around the earth, and that the earth is far from the heavens and stands immobile in the center of the universe. [...] Third. I say that if there were a true demonstration that the sun was in the center of the universe and the earth in the third sphere, and that the sun did not travel around the earth but the earth circled the sun, then it would be necessary to proceed with great caution in explaining the passages of Scripture which seemed contrary, and we would rather have to say that we did not understand them than to say that something was false which has been demonstrated. But I do not believe that there is any such demonstration; none has been shown to me. It is not the same thing to show that the appearances are saved by assuming that the sun really is in the center and the earth in the heavens. [...] I add that the words 'the sun also riseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteneth to the place where he ariseth, etc.' were those of Solomon, who not only spoke by divine inspiration but was a man wise above all others and most learned in human sciences and in the knowledge of all created things, and his wisdom was from God."
-- Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, April 12, 1615 letter to Foscarini.
I don't see how any person at all familiar with the trial of Galileo could possibly say with a straight face that his persecution was not a result of "a hostility towards science". That's *exactly* what it was about. The Church was hostile to the notion of anyone using scientific principles to reach conclusions contrary to existing church dogma.

Point 2, who is the founder of modern taxonomy and what was his faith? Who is the founder of the modern scientific method and what was his faith? Who is the "inventor" of Calculus and what was his faith?

Irrelevant to the original point you made and which you are (poorly) attempting to support here. Try again. You earlier claimed that "it was faith that gave us science and technology as we know them today". That's hardly the same thing as saying that some of the founders of science were men of faith, and the latter does not count as support for the former. Men "of" faith were involved, surely, but so were men not of faith. Many founders of science were left-handed, but that wouldn't support a claim that "left-handedness gave us science and technology as we know them today" either.

You were saying that "faith", *ITSELF*, was what "gave us science and technology". Try again. Your claim also carries an implication that faith was the sole or prime cause of science and technology -- feel free to support that as well, or at least clarify your statement if that's not what you're trying to say.