The War against the War Between Science and Faith Revisited

With considerable discontent, I just concluded a conversation with a young man (I assume he was young, and human — on the Internet one never knows ) about the deleterious effect of Christianity on the march of science and progress. The exchange (I will not call it a dialog, since we were merely speaking past each other) consisted of his assertion that Christianity deters and discourages science, and my request for some historical evidence to back that assertion, and my request for some ...