Bluenose

While culling a stack of old magazine articles, I found this today:

"...there are those who claim that Christianity provided the necessary backround for science with its belief in an ordered universe. How do they account for the fact that for three-quarters of the Christian era the home of science was confined to the non-Christian parts of the world, such as China, India and the Islamic counties ? "
Correspondence from Herman Bondi, Churchill College, Cambridge
page 484 Nature, Vol. 365, 7 Oct 1993

lpetrich

Bluenose:
That seems to me a back-projection of present-day beliefs; such common medieval beliefs as belief in everyday miracle-working, demonic possession, and suchlike do not seem very much like belief in natural law.

That's a problem I have with Bede and like-minded individuals -- they toss out much they find awkward in order to arrive at "Christianity", which they then equate to the whole thing.