[aruanan]

I don't have time right now to read the article and evaluate the supporting facts, but modern science did indeed spring from Christian Europe so the point may be valid.

Well, the weasel word is "modern." A more accurate description would be to say that Christian Europe, especially Christian northern Europe, was far more encouraging to the mode of thought that led to modern science, a mode which had existed well back into ancient Greece and before. And, more likely than not, it was Christian northern Europe, specifically the theological determinism of Calvin, that led to the deterministic materialism of naturalism.

[Jeff Chandler]

the mode of thought that led to modern science, a mode which had existed well back into ancient Greece

Yes and no. Pythagoras was on the right path, but Plato and Aristotle came to dominate to the exclusion of Pythagoras's methods for nearly two thousand years. Until Kepler, scientific knowledge was only built upon a priori assumptions. Kepler took the first baby steps of deducting scientific theories from observed facts.