Over history in general, however, science was almost always looked down upon by religion. For most of this time, religion was in power, though, and science was probably seen as a genuine threat to that power.
The hippies did introduce an anti-intellectualism or anti-rationalism, and tried to base spirituality on that. Don't think, just believe. So yes, there was some of that also.
Yes, true on many counts. However, science has *not* been an unmixed blessing. Moreover, it's not so much what the reality is, but what the perception is.
Science was once expected to solve all our problems. It failed. Of course. Disappointed people began questioning whether science was necessary, useful, etc., etc. People nowadays are refusing to have their kids vaccinated, because they fear the vaccinations cause autism. They avoid food preservatives because the chemicals are harmful. They do this because they never saw or experienced bad food poisoning, never saw what an epidemic could do to kids. They simply don't remember (or never knew) the bad old days, so they make idiotic decisions.
Some conclude that everything should be "natural," not understanding that "natural" implies natural selection, dying off of the weaker and less resistant, untold suffering from disease and starvation.
Yes.
Right. It's often not even in the Bible they claim to be relying on.
What Fundamentalism offers is complete certainty. Unfortunately, certainty has no place in reality.
Cross-pollination is one thing; trying to force one onto the other is another. I'm all for cross pollination, for the exchanges of ideas between two seemingly unrelated areas. Lots of wonderful stuff has come from such exchanges. But to insist that physical reality is the way scripture says it is, and to defer to scripture when observation shows otherwise, is forcing things. I imagine science trying to claim that God can't exist because He violates the laws of thermodynamics would be something in the other direction.
Yeah, I think you're right. I think sometimes it's just people out looking for a bad guy to blame their unhappiness on; for a Fundamentalist, it's the scientists. For the scientists, it's the damned Bible-thumpers. And so on, and so forth...