World Without Science

Imagine a world where science has become the brainchild of demons and people are scared senseless of any sort of rational thinking that defied the teachings of the Church. It all began when Charles Darwin was heavily prosecuted by major influential politicians, following his publication of On the Origin of the Species late November 1859. Since then, all who supported evolution were convicted of spreading immoral and satanic views. Even the more developed and democratic countries, like the United States had become, started to regress to primitive policies where religion dictated government. People feared questioning the religions imposed onto them and the majority of the world looked down upon science as a whole. New technologies we have today never even were considered possible as advancements in scientific fields began to dwindle. Medical treatments and electronic devices did not increase as much as it did in the Original Timeline due to the fact that people feared any type of scientific research would contradict the almighty God and reap the consequences of the zealous governments.

Point of Divergence
In London on the 13th of January in 1860 began the trials that incriminated Charles Darwin. The outcome was so horrendous that it influenced the world to dispute any Christian preachings.

Science is Challenged

 * Gregor Mendel's proposition of inheritance was treated as complete nonsense. It was deemed that organism's appearances were constructed by God at conception where he took bits of the parents' souls (along with other ancestors') and combined them together to create an infant soul that would eventually develop into a new person with similar appearances to his or her relatives.
 * Linneaus's taxomony was considered impractical, because he grouped humans with other groups of monkeys. Aristotle's scala naturae became the standard and publications using Linneaus's binomial nomenclature were given severe fines.
 * In 1872, supporters of Lamarkism were hanged in Sweden, because Swiss officials believed only God could change a species and that this rarely occurred because all of His species were perfect and the ecosystem was balanced. Only wickedness was considered to destroy or mutate organisms.
 * Medical universities in the United States teach that genetic disorders that run in the family to be the result of illegitimate unions, that occurred between some ancestor at some point of time. It is believed to result from a contamination of souls during such sinful acts and couples are discouraged from having children if similar diseases run in their plagued families.
 * In the early 20th century, Oswald Avery was given 10 years imprisonment for claiming that DNA was the source of heredity. The prosecutors decided that his experiments were filled with lies and that Avery must have been part of a satanic cult.
 * In 1925, the Scopes Monkey Trial's result favored creationism and the United States education began implementing biblical accounts as a universal basis of study. Separation of Church and State was deemed unconstitutional under the grounds that freedom of religion did not extend to criminal activity associated with evolutionism.
 * Strict laws are given on experimentation of animals and data collected through the use of animal experimentation is discouraged from the remaining scientific community (which truly is religious in technicality).
 * Genocide of World War II does not occur since Aryan Race cannot be believed as better than any other race (since inheritance has to do with souls instead of DNA). Instead, Hitler blames not the Jews, but the scientists for their hardship.  Concentration camps are filled with scientists instead.  Albert Einstein becomes a mathematics teacher and never moves to America.  His intellect goes to waste as he never reveals his scientific views with society.  He is driven mad as a consequence.
 * Watson and Crick never discovered chromosomes or the structure of DNA in 1953. Scientists were too fearful to test the genetic inheritance of man, so the race to understand DNA never occurred.
 * The Catholic Church rewrites Genesis, claiming it as a newly discovered scripture that eluded mankind for nearly two thousand years, which purportedly provides the answers to any confusion of the original Book of Genesis. The New Genesis evidently has information that completely "disproves" any possibility of the Big Bang or "any other faithless accusations against the Creation of Life".
 * The United States never makes it to the moon, because it is believed that Earth is the only habitat fit for man. To escape the planet is believed to result in the penetration of heavens.  It is seemed either the outcome would be 100% deadly if it was even possible (most doubt it is).  No human ever dares venture into outerspace, for it is consider as trespassing on God's Kingdom.
 * Late 20th century supporters of evolution claimed that natural selection due to sexual reproduction was the root of adaptions. However, Church officials deemed that their ideas were blinded by lustuous thought.  It is believed that the idea of reproduction being used to change species was an excuse for people to follow their sexual temptations.  The Catholic Church claims that healthy children can only be produced by Faith in God and that sex alone cannot advance a species.
 * It is decided that Chemistry is not composed of atoms because each object is considered to be made up of certain materials that define its structure. For human beings, the soul is considered one of these materials.  Chemicists fail miserably at every other attempt to explain or calculate the molecular level of the universe.