be bringing  that fake chippie soon yea. Ya know it be the one who could do as it pleased . Try the Jesus diet you fat wanker

Switch over? ... Switch over from what to what?

 
You are the only one who believes people follow religion blindly.

You said something like isn't it about time that science got credit for curing disease.  As if it doesn't.

When was the last time that any religious group claimed credit for curing polio or AIDs or the plague.  Or any other disease.  They have rendered onto Ceaser that which is Ceaser's for a few hundred years.

It is just funny that you are beating such a dead horse, arguing a debate that the religious conceeded about 200 years ago.

You really have to go back about 500 years to that era, with the exception of a tiny percent, so small it is statistiacally zero.

I have a Jewish friend who doesn't trust Christians because of the Inquisition when they expelled the Jews from Spain.  Before my time.

(Don't go into Nazi Germany.  That was not a religious movement but a secular one.

has been systematically used to successfully quell the advancement of science?

Medical science used bloodletting from roughly 1500 bc until well into 19th century, is this the progress and evolution you talk about?  
      How about using Trepanation for 7000 years until the 1900's, most of the time only making the patient worse...
      How about doctors prescribing heroin for coughs in the late 1800's...  
      1. Children’s soothing syrups. Used for teething and nursing infants, and also to “cure colic, cramps, dysentery, canker sores and pain,” these syrups were “soothing” because they contained morphine, chloroform, codeine, heroin, opium and cannabis.

 
      Heres a big one- Mercury being used in medical treatments from 1500 bc until the early 1920's. In fact its still used in %50 or more of flu vaccines.  
       
    OK so how much faster did medical science adapt than religion? In fact MOST scientific advances didn't happen until the last 200 yrs. So comparing the religious beliefs of 1000+ yrs ago to the changes in science in the last 200 years is completely flawed. In fact you need to read a little more on MODERN religions stances on many of the issues you bring up. You want to use current scientific models to compare to religious base models from 1500+yrs ago. Study it a bit more. Is religion flawed? Yes. Is it the end of the world? I don't think so. Is science flawed as well? Yes... in fact it might be as bad as religion today because of the belief that science cant be wrong... You don't see the issues with medical science today? Their profits are directly related to the number of drugs they can sell.... Looking back a couple of centuries, and in some cases just a few decades, it’s easy to laugh at some of the seriously misguided medical practices that occurred.

But history, of course, has a funny way of repeating itself, and that is really no laughing matter.

In fact, I could point out a laundry list of medical practices in full swing today that, in my opinion, could easily be added to a list like the one above:
•Giving a cervical cancer vaccine to boys

•Prescribing antibiotics for colds (about 41 million antibiotic prescriptions are written for cold sufferers each year, even though antibiotics have no effect on the viruses that cause colds)
•Using mercury as a filling in dental cavities

•Having your gallbladder, tonsils, or appendix removed for no good reason (if your appendix becomes infected or inflamed, it is life threatening and this is one case when your appendix should be removed)
•And finally one of the largest ones -- encouraging people to avoid sun exposure to decrease their risk of cancer when it has now been proven that this will nearly DOUBLE your risk of cancer.

 
       http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_industryweapons306.htm
       http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-unusual-ancient-medical-techniques