People in the medieval era didn't believe the same stuff that people believe now. Doctors in that time frame believed that Leaches could cure diseases. Should we hold that viewpoint as relevant today, just because some people who were not as educated as we are today believed it? I mean that is what you are doing is you are making an assumption about a group of people you don't particularly understand based on an archaic almost universally disregarded teaching.
So let me ask you a few things. How are practices that have undisputedly been debunked hundreds of years ago relevant today? Another thing is just because certain people that claim to follow a religion do horrible things doesn't mean the religion condones that behavior. I mean in every group of people you can find crazy people that do horrible things.
Source materiel on why Christianity does not hate science or learning:
Proverbs 1:5 ESV
"Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,"
Proverbs 18:15 ESV
An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Those are just a few examples.