Modern Science? Thank Christianity

[Michie]

The Catholic Church supplied the recipe and the religious 'ought' that gave birth to modern science.​

If you ever watched an old movie, you’ll see behavior that to our minds seems utterly bizarre. For example, you may see in an old war movie a medic offering a soldier a cigarette right before he goes into surgery. Didn’t they know that smoking was unhealthy? Yes, they did. Cigarettes were called coffin nails since the early 1880s!

Try giving a person on a gurney a cigarette before surgery today. People will think you’re insane! But why is it insane today and not forty or fifty years ago? It’s the way we are. Conventions and mainstream opinions tend to be part of the background noise of life, and we’re blind to them unless they’re presented to us to be evaluated. But once they are, and if they happen to be rejected, an intellectual revolution begins, and things that were once accepted become unthinkable.

In the early days of Christianity, this new religion had to compete for legitimacy with paganism. Over the course of this competition, Christian revelation introduced new insights that began to revolutionize the West. Eventually, paganism became unthinkable.

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Modern Science? Thank Christianity

It is the Catholic Church as an institution that supplied the recipe and the religious "ought" that gave birth to modern science.

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[prodromos]

Greek philosophy had already reached the point where the old pagan myths were being dismissed and the framework was there, waiting to be filled by Christ.
IMHO he is way too dismissive of the continued influence of Greek philosophy on modern science.