Science and Schism

A reader put forward the idea that the Protestant Reformation, allegedly by challenging the Christian desire for unity in dogma that hitherto differentiated Christians from pagans, allowed for freedom of inquiry in Protestant nations, and created or perhaps only encouraged the birth of science.

This is an old, old slander, and one that was popular among ahistorians long before the atheists took the same argument and turned it into the alleged war between Faith and Reason.

It is a theory the historical record does not support.

Here are a list of some of the inventions, mathematicians, and scientists who flourished before the Protestant Reformation.

It is this list that has to be explained away by the Christians-deter-science or Catholics-deter-science calumny. Ready? Go.

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