“’just as medieval science was poisoned by religious doctrine’
A couple of fist-fights does not make a war. Medieval science—that is to say, science—was created by religious doctrine. That doctrine would be Christianity, building on the doctrines of Judaism and the philosophy of certain Greek geniuses such as Aristotle.”
No need to be touchy. FYI, the greeks were pagens.
You apparently miss the point. The pagan Greeks, despite the contributions of Aristotle et al., had a superstitious, rather than confident, view of the world. They did not have the philosophical and theological foundation to produce a culture of science. The medievals did.
In other words, Greece produced some great content, as did China and India. But to produce a millennium-long (and counting) scientific revolution required Western Christianity. It sounds so embarrassingly unsophisticated when secular academics whine about the medieval Church. They toss around terms like the "search for truth" and "freedom of inquiry"—seemingly ignorant of the fact that the medieval Church introduced those ideas to a hostile world and gave them their cushy jobs.