[Jeff Chandler]

The point is that the Christian mindset was the soil in which the seeds of modern science germinated.

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.

It would be interesting to hold that theory up to the info in a book I am presently reading on the birth of science, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler

[drbuzzard]

It’s pretty well established that the ancient greeks invented the scientific method. Now a case could be made that Christianity isn’t anti-science like many other religions, but to claim it gave birth to science is utter drivel.

[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.