Is science just a modern phenomena?  Or does it belong to the Ancients? "Ridiculous to call the Middle Ages unscientific"  Can we make what they made? Can we make Greek fire? Do we have the insights of Alchemists? More on that another day.    Crusader hospitals  Inventors of soap, care of the sick, hostels for travellers.  Monastic orders caring for the wounded and weary pilgrims.   Learning from heralded Scientist Galileo (16th century)  His belief in Jesus encouraged him to challenge misguided science gleaned from pagan thought. The earth was not the centre of the universe.  We, like all planets orbit the Sun!  The sun is centre of our universe!  Yes of course - the Son is! :)

Lets debunk a few more myths... Moderns believe Christians were against scientific thinkers. As if scientists stood against a static, unimaginative church. Wrong.  Galileo was a Christian, a dedicated scientist who recorded what he discovered. He believed the sun stood at the centre of the universe. He stood against the status quo of the time...  Pagan Greek Philosophers believed the earth was the centre.  Galileo was rejecting these pagan views and bringing the Biblical view to cut through.  Peer Reviews The church needed to think about Galileo's ideas, not reject it unthinkingly.  Investigate different models - pursue the Christian scientific method.   Check out the ancient Christian scientists - Galileo and Copernicus. They challenged both humanist philosophers and fellow Church thinkers. Then came a century of conflict, internal dissent and corruption (16th century). The division of the Church with the protest of protestants, and for a century theories of Copernicus' work were prohibited at the end of the late Middle Ages.  Galileo's work remained popular with the Christian masses.  Experimental scientific method is deeply Biblical! Why would you experiment on the world if you think this is all there is?  Some philosophies believe the physical world is not real. Doesn't this rob us of half our reality?  Some philosophies say the world is evil. If so, then haven't you lost all its beauty?  Some say it is all an allusion. Then there really is no need for science.

If the world has no meaning - why bother investigate it?   Christians believe God made the world and said it was good. Jesus went into the world and became a part of it. He had to learn to take His first steps as a child. He was physical. Christians are proud that this is God - our God had to learn to walk! Physical, real, alive. With us.   Christians advanced the ideas of the cosmos. Consider the 400 year old Royal Society - 85% of its founders were puritan Christians. Driven by the Bible to investigate science. The more they were passionate about the Bible, the more they investigated. Christians get the reality of the physical world, the rationality of it. Our God is physical. The Christian ages have pioneered study and investigation.This comes out of the Bible and from Jesus.   Learn from early medieval Church-Father scientists... Bernard of Clairvaux, 2nd preacher during the 2nd crusade. "Awesome".   Loved Jesus and preached the 2nd crusade. More of that another day.  Developed technology in his monastery, advanced water wheels and mills for the betterment of human beings. Gave it to the masses, not just the elite.    The Christian ideal...  Study the Bible, walk with God, investigate, design and give it to the world.   True science, true  invention, true discovery comes from those who really do believe in God.