“In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scientists educated in Christian universities and following a Christian tradition of scientific and mathematical speculation overturned a pagan cosmology and physics, and arrived at conclusions that would have been unimaginable within the confines of the Hellenistic scientific traditions. For, despite all our vague talk of ancient or medieval ‘science,’ pagan, Muslim, or Christian, what we mean today by science—its methods its controls and guiding principles, its desire to unite theory to empirical discovery, its trust in a unified set of physical laws and so on—came into existence, for whatever reasons, and for better or worse, only within Christendom, and under the hands of believing Christians.” – David Bentley Hart