Objection · Case 08 · Science
Nearly everyone in seventeenth-century Europe was a Christian. That the founders of science were too is a fact about the population, not about any link between faith and science.
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Response
This is the strongest objection and it deserves a direct answer. Two replies. Several of the founders (Kepler, Boyle, Newton) said in their own words that their theology motivated their science, which is more than demographic coincidence. And the stronger thesis, that Christianity caused modern science, is deliberately not claimed here. What is claimed is that faith and science coexisted in the founders without conflict, which answers the popular assertion that science advanced by escaping religion. The demographic point does not touch that narrower claim.
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This objection is to The roster of believing scientists.
Johannes Kepler, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, and Gregor Mendel were all committed Christians. Kepler is often quoted as describing his work as thinking God’s thoughts after…
Under Claim 06: Many of the founders of modern science were devout Christians who expected an orderly universe because they believed a rational God made it.