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→Scientists before Christ: How about "scientific revolution" instead?
:::: Maybe we should also note that most Europeans and Americans at the time were also Christians. It puts into contrast the strange divide we see now. [[User:Drochld|Drochld]] 23:41, 10 March 2008 (EDT)
:::: Maybe we should also note that most Europeans and Americans at the time were also Christians. It puts into contrast the strange divide we see now. [[User:Drochld|Drochld]] 23:41, 10 March 2008 (EDT)
::::: I've been trying to figure out for a few days what I think of the suggested wording. I've decided that I don't like it (sorry). I think that the meaning of "early modern scientific era" is unclear. I'm now thinking that a better wording would be along the lines of "Most of the scientists from the [[scientific revolution]] to the 19th century...". Also, the claim about them starting the various scientific disciplines is essentially correct (the first scientists in the fields are pretty-well by definition the founders of those fields).
::::: Researcher [[Rodney Stark]], apparently an agnostic, researched this issue. The following is from a review of one of hist books:
{{QuoteBox|To illustrate the role of Christians in the rise of science, Stark researched ‘scientific stars’ from 1543 to 1680, the era usually designated as the ‘scientific revolution’, and came up with a list of the top 52. Of these, 26 were Protestant and 26 Catholic; 15 of them were English, 9 French, 8 Italian, 7 German (the rest were Dutch, Danish, Flemish, Polish and Swedish respectively). Only one was a sceptic (Edmund Halley) and one (Paracelsus) was a pantheist. The other 50 were Christians, 30 at least of which could be characterized as ‘devout’ because of their evident zeal. It is not until the time of Darwin that atheism appeared to accomplish anything significant in science (Halley’s work in astronomy and mathematics owed no debt to atheism).[http://creationontheweb.com/content/view/1581/]}}
::::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 09:09, 13 March 2008 (EDT)