The problem was lack of information in the beginning. There have not been scholars of religion who took time to read up new scientific knowledge and those scholars of science who did not take time to learn how to explain to religious scholars and just called them ‘jaahil’.
Whenever this happens, to be on safe side religious scholars advise caution.
Nothing wrong with that. This philosophy is used by everyone.
Fortunately with mass dispersion of both kind of knowledge, many people have come to good terms with each other.
Jaahil religious scholars and jaahil scientific scholars are still present though.