If, on the other hand, the reference to 'Science & Religion not mixing' is directed at the Catholic Church...... and other powerful institutions of religion which Exist & Influence the Politics of Science Big Time.... I'll agree.
There are many deep layers to this specific issue which have been largely hidden until the advent of the Internet.... and the Apparent Truths are so surreal (and rather horrific) in scope as to "put off" anyone of an inclination towards simplicity and loyalty to the System as-it-is............

Suffice to say, the Institutions of Power are corrupt and in bed with each other.... and that, Unfortunately for those hoping for a simple & accurate Understanding of the world & how it functions, means that Science as-we've-been-taught-it is a terribly manipulated and controlled Version of the Whole Story that Suits the Interests of the Power Structure.... Religion being a Major Component of the Powers-that-Be.

You see, Leslie, the fault that some of what you have mentioned happened in Physics, and Science in general, is due to the mediocrity, ego, envy, and greed taking over, (as any other, (lucrative, (well it is; we can't deny that), aspect of life)), the key positions in it. The majority of those holding the "reins" have worked, (sometimes), long and hard to get were they are, (from a bad, as well as, the good way of meaning it). However, (roughly), quoting Michio Kaku's words in his book about the hyperdimentions/-space that I've mentioned in another thread in this tribe earlier today), "If science was that easy, everything would had been discovered thousands of years ago, and there would be nothing left for us to discover anymore".
So, now, (returning back to our "moguls of intellectual punishment"), they see that it was not as easy as they thought it would be, and their time "running out", (or so they think), they are bitter that somebody, ("especially some cocky punk(s) who haven't done a sh** in his/their life/-ves yet"), might take their laurels away from them based on all the hard work THEY had put in, (because THIS is how science works - knowledge rests upon the knowledge discovered earlier, and that on the one earlier than that, and so on).
In one of my former schools, I saw a quote from Isaac Newton. It was something like this, "If I could see farther, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants like..." etc., with some prominent scientific names of past times.
Same here, some, (read, "overwhelming majority"), came in science for vanity, money, power; some, however, are the true seekers of the truth. Hence the conflict. The former are purposefully sabotaging those below them so that they have less of a chance to succeed.
Take Maxwell's equations, for example, ( hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hba...html ). They are based on blood and sweat works of three other different, (and brilliant), people - Gauss, Faraday, Ampere. However, Maxwell, (not to belittle his own achievements, of course), managed to see it all in a sort of combined way, as a whole, as a one-piece work, so to speak. So, he ripped "more of the cream" than the sweat of the other three worthy gentlemen, who did the "infantry's job", without victoriously riding in on a white stallion.
Therefore, the situation, (read, Atrocity), that is taking place in the current system of public education in this country is the corollary of the unquenched vanial(TM) thirst. Which is inherently unquenchable, of course. Hence, the "dogmas", and other fruits of the primal human vileness. They want to cementify the "uncluttered", (read, free of dogmas), minds, with those very dogmas to such an extent, so that the "newly arriving" have no chance to even briefly fly, just nuteredly crawl on the ground while the high-ups make their last attempts at eternity.

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(and, please, to those it applies - "not everybody" is a given)






I can go more, but I think I you know what I'm trying to convey.


P.S. Read the book I've mentioned in my other thread today, btw. It speaks of all those things you've mentioned too.