[PatrickHenry]

I'd only wish to add that it was exclusively within the Western civilizational orbit -- which is traditionally classical and JudeoChristian in belief -- that systematic science even got started in the first place. And nowhere else. I'll leave it up to you to discover why that is. It really is an "interesting problem!"

You're correct that science began "exclusively within the Western civilizational orbit." However, the Greeks -- Euclid, Aristotle, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, etc. -- who were undoubtedly the originators of what we call science, were neither Jewish nor Christian. The West didn't become Christian until the early 300s (AD). Western Civilization was flourishing for at least six centuries, probably seven centuries or more, when the prevailing religion was worship of the Olympian gods. Paganism.

But poor ol' Zeus just can't get any respect these days.

[freedumb2003]

However, the Greeks -- Euclid, Aristotle, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, etc. -- who were undoubtedly the originators of what we call science

Of course, they were followed by the Geeks

(that's me a little to the right).