No matter how long of an excerpt you post... you're not going to be able to get past the simple fact that a *pre* Christian world view was the first to embrace science. The worlds first scientists were pagans, agnostics and quite possibly atheists... not Christians. The world view that wiped out the Greek scientists was the same that held Christendom in it's grasp for centuries. The Christian world did not rediscover science until they rediscovered the works of the ancient Greeks (preserved by the Arabs).
> Pantheism was fatal to science everywhere but in Christendom.
So you finally admit it: Christianity *IS* pantheism!!
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My claim was that only in the Christian West did science become a self-sustaining enterprise, specifically because of the idea of creation in time, and the necessary repudiation of eternal cycles. It's no accident that Newton's advances in physics followed shortly after the Church's dogmatic definition of "creation from nothing."