Well Schraf, madear, it appears that you've also completely ignored all of the corrections, debates, and outright fights that we religious fundy-type folks get into with each other over evidence and interpretation and whatnot.
It would, in fact, be impossible to ignore the havok centuries of sectarian conflict as wrought on our civilization; after all, when the
religious get into disputes over evidence and interpretation and whatnot, people are usually
killed.
I don't recall anyone dying as a result of relativity surplanting classical physics; even Newton and Liebniz were able to carry on their decades-long disagreement about the origin of calculus without anyone actually killing each other. (In the interests of full disclosure, however, I did observe an outcast lepidopterist mauled beyond recognition at the most recent branch meeting of the Entomological Society of America.)