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A notable fact in relation to [[Christianity and Science|Christianity and science]] is that the birth of modern [[science]] (see: [[Scientific Revolution]]) occurred in [[Christianity|Christianized]] [[Europe]].<ref>http://www.ldolphin.org/bumbulis/#anchor5343749</ref>

A notable fact in relation to [[Christianity and Science|Christianity and science]] is that the birth of modern [[science]] (see: [[Scientific Revolution]]) occurred in [[Christianity|Christianized]] [[Europe]].<ref>http://www.ldolphin.org/bumbulis/#anchor5343749</ref>

[[Sociology|Sociologist]] [[Rodney Stark]] investigated the individuals who made the most significant scientific contributions between 1543 and 1680 A.D., the time of the Scientific Revolution.

[[Sociology|Sociologist]] [[Rodney Stark]] investigated the individuals who made the most significant scientific contributions between 1543 and 1680 A.D., the time of the Scientific Revolution. Despite this, it must be noted that it was only through the rejection of religious ideas that science actually came to arise. The Catholic church, which dominated the whole of Christianity at the time, was being rejected on a number of different levels - both cultural and philosophical - and this allowed the exploration of ideas that could not have been explored otherwise. It should also be noted that this was this widespread rejection and re-examination of traditional ideas that led to the rejection of British rule in the American colonies, and eventually to the founding of the United States. Without the re-examination of traditional religious ideas - including the rejection of ideas that had been held sacred for a thousand years or more - it would have been impossible for our modern world to have come to be.

In Stark's list of 52 top scientific contributors,<ref name="Origins">Williams, Alex,[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1581/ The biblical origins of science], ''Journal of Creation'' 18(2):49–52, August 2004.</ref> only one ([[Edmund Halley]]) was a skeptic and another ([[Paracelsus]]) was a [[pantheism|pantheist]].

In Stark's list of 52 top scientific contributors,<ref name="Origins">Williams, Alex,[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1581/ The biblical origins of science], ''Journal of Creation'' 18(2):49–52, August 2004.</ref> only one ([[Edmund Halley]]) was a skeptic and another ([[Paracelsus]]) was a [[pantheism|pantheist]].

The other 50 were Christians, 30 of whom could be characterized as being devout Christians.<ref name="Origins" />

The other 50 were Christians, 30 of whom could be characterized as being devout Christians.<ref name="Origins" />