Accord Quote by Rodney Stark

“As the historian Edward Grant explained, 'It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere else'. ...…

— Rodney Stark

The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science…

— Freeman Dyson

Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.

— Larry Wilmore

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and…

— Seth Shostak

“The doctrine of creation of the kind that the Abrahamic faiths profess is such that it encourages the expectation that there will be a…

— John Polkinghorne

The irrefutable fact is that Christianity gave birth to modern science. The scientific revolution began with the Protestant Reformation and the Bible played a…

— Glen Rambharack

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

— Terence McKenna

“SCIENCE AROSE ONLY IN Europe because only medieval Europeans believed that science was possible and desirable. And the basis of their belief was their…

— Rodney Stark

“Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus,…

— Nancy Pearcey

“Science arose in the West—and only in the West—precisely because the Judeo-Christian conception of God encouraged and even demanded this pursuit.”

— Rodney Stark

The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation of God.…

— Derek Barton

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton