As the historian Edward Grant explained, 'It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere else'..The crucial question is: Why?My answer to this question is as brief as it is unoriginal: Christianity depicted God as a rational, responsive, dependable, and omnipotent being and the universe as his personal creation, thus having a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting human comprehension. Rodney Stark
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It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere else. An argument that was stated by Dr. Edward Grant who is an historian. He also said that "there is not a single scientist alive today who would disagree with this statement. But why? The answer to this question is as brief as it is unoriginal: Christianity depicted God as a rational, responsive, dependable, and omnipotent being and the universe as his personal creation, thus having a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting human comprehension."  

Source: For The Glory Of God: How Monotheism Led To Reformations, Science, Witchhunts, And The End Of Slavery

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