[gondramB]

>>Actually it isn't the Catholic Church per se that helped in the development of science, but the CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW in general. <<

"Helped with the development of science" - no argument from me.

"Invented science" would not be reasonable since the pre-Christian Greeks had science.

[A. Pole]

"Invented science" would not be reasonable since the pre-Christian Greeks had science.

The institution of science is something quite different from the Greek philosophy.

In natural science in particular there is a well defined scientific method, formal peer review, hierarchical organization, well ordered division of disciplines and coordinated on international scale.

The science is based on the implicit epistemological and metaphysical assumptions formulated explicitly by the scholastic theologians and philosophers. This was worked out by the Roman Catholic Church during Middle Ages in the form of university system. This is a plain historical fact, although complex one and subtle, requiring some intellectual effort and intelligence to grasp. Sorry.

[muawiyah]

BTW, the pre-Christian Greeks, and their knowledge, perished. A Dark Age prevailed throughout Western and Northern Europe from about 538 AD to the mid-1300s. It didn't get much better than that until later in fact.

All the knowledge of the Greeks was either "preserved" in books owned maintained by the Moslems, or it was dug out by Christian researchers.

Even China had a multi-century Dark Age in that period. The Mayans disappeared. Etc., etc.

Why do we keep forgetting the Dark Ages ~