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Myths about Science and Religion: That Christianity Gave Birth to Modern Science
Posted on May 16, 2013 Leave a Comment
In these posts I have often focused on the close interaction between science, or natural philosophy, and Christianity. But as Noah J. Efron helpfully reminds us in his entry in Galileo goes to Jail, “Christian ideas about nature were not exclusively Christian ideas.” Efron admits that the claim that Christianity led to modern science captures […]