Does religious faith among politically ultraconservative religious Christians place a high value on denying all scientific evidence and scientific knowledge?

The religious extreme conservatives seem to have a strong investment in promoting and maintaining ignorance about science in particular. Over the past few years, someone perceived to be an “intellectual” seems to have come to mean being someone out to deceive the public and destroy the family and the one true faith, as professed by those who support the Tea Party and have pushed the GOP towards their own extreme political views.

Is it because they deeply fear that knowledge not derived from literal interpretations of carefully selected Biblical verses will undermine the faith among those who profess to believe as they do?

Is that why they express such disdain for those with advanced education in the sciences and why they condemn science as a secular religion bent on denying their Lord and Saviour and destroying the family?