09-06-2010, 02:25 AM
Orion Wrote:True, but many of the fathers of modern science were Christian and used their cosmological understanding of the universe as declared by the Bible to assist them. If I can find my examples on my PC I'll put them up, however I do recall that the Big Bang theory met heavy resistance from atheist scientists at the time because it presupposed a "beginning" of existence, which didn't fit well with metaphysical conceptions.
Nuuuuu~ I don't think so.
I'm sure many of them were christian, but that's simply window dressing. It wasn't Christianity that made them good scientists. The Renaissance, Age of Reason, and Enlightenment were a result of people moving away from the Church and an explosion in science.
The Bible does not a science text make.

