I'm scratching my head as to why this is a headscratcher. The scientific method was created by Christian fundamentalists. Even then, not all science is rejected. Creationists, for example, dispute only the parts of modern science as taught today that cannot be directly tested in a lab.
2: The people who created the scientific method were not fundamentalists. They were Christians (most of them), but per the above, that doesn't make them fundamentalists.
3: It's a headscratcher because Fundamentalism is a reaction to secularism. And secularism itself is a byproduct of scientific research (it's easier to justify non-religious beliefs when you have a non-religious way to discover things that were previously explained by religion). So fundamentalism is two-steps removed from something you would research by any kind of methodical process.
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1: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism] is not a synonym for "belief." It is a specific reaction to secularist encroachment on a society.
2: The people who created the scientific method were not fundamentalists. They were Christians (most of them), but per the above, that doesn't make them fundamentalists.
3: It's a headscratcher because Fundamentalism is a reaction to secularism. And secularism itself is a byproduct of scientific research (it's easier to justify non-religious beliefs when you have a non-religious way to discover things that were previously explained by religion). So fundamentalism is two-steps removed from something you would research by any kind of methodical process.