Can you explain to me in what ways Anglican theology might be used to slant science reporting. Or Catholic theology, or Funamentalist theology, as I suspect you may have a good point here.
Oh, were to start... I guess the history of early British human nature studies and anthropology it’s self would be where to start. Like early paleontologists, Almost all of the so called historical “scientists” were devout Anglican Christians, clergy, and missionaries. Similar with the Catholics and their own studies of anthropology and inferior pagan aborigines past and present. Still this stigma of early man prevails and it is rooted in hard set church doctrine and faith.
Right off the bat, the strong obsessive scrutiny of uncivilized non-christian “inferior barbaric pagan religions” causes every structure found to be classified as a “pagan religious alter”. It could be a horse trough or a toilet, and it will still automatically be officially classified as a pagan alter. No need to question this or explore other possibilities, it’s always an ignorant heathen alter. This habit is even unconsciously being used by non-fathful scientists, it has just become common practice with roots from the earliest practice of the fields of anthropology and archaeology by those with faith first.
Some sources are obsessed with using science to prove the biblical age of the earth at 6k. The common consensus that all early man were cave brutes who could only grunt at each other based on the fact the were not as “intelligent” as the “superior civilized Christians”. There are many cases where the faith sets up the environment to have predetermined assumptions that we are now finding to be wrong. And I truly think many very important past and even current discoveries have been lost, destroyed, or hidden just to protect an impression of “superior doctrine and culture” no matter how important they actually were.