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Here's something that maybe of interest in this debate. Christian vs. Pagan approaches to science.

"Today we know that neither an unscientific view of the world nor the exaltation of ascesticism were the creatures of Christianity but were leading features of the world Christianity entered. The irrationational side of much of Greek life and thought has been brought out in many recent studies. It is clear that the vast majority of the population of the Roman Empire at any time felt the need for religion and that even among the educated the number of pure sceptics was probably always limited. Greek science virtually ceased to advance after 200 B.C. and what science there was might more properly be called occultism, connected to magic and sorcery, appealing to revelations and dealings with the supernatural. The pagan intellectuals from the Emperor Julian down, who opposed Christianity in the fourth century were no more critical or "scientific" than any Christian, and were quite as dogmatic in their adherence to Homer and other authorities as Christians were in their appeal to the Bible."
--The Conversion of Western Europe, 350-740 edited by J.N. Hillgarth pg.4-5


Hmmmnnn.....interesting. Seems the common stereotype of the Christian Middle Ages seems to apply more to pagan Greece and Rome.