MYTH-BUSTERS: Here’s Three Big Reasons Christianity Enabled The Scientific Revolution

Take an introductory astronomy or physics class on a typical college or university campus these days and at some point there will be a great deal of attention paid to the Three Laws of Planetary Motion discovered by Johannes Kepler, one of the chief movers of the Scientific Revolution.

What will almost certainly get little or no attention in the class will be the fact that Kepler was a believing Christian who recognized the deep theological implications of those laws. The reason little is said about Kepler’s faith is the myth that Christianity and science are opposites.

In the following video, historian Michael Keas takes viewers on a detailed and enriching review of the facts that make clear Christianity was an enabler of science beginning very early on and without it much of what we take for granted today might well not be with us:


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3 Comments

  1. Jared Black on March 27, 2020 at 10:43 am

    I you believe the computer generated predictions of global warming, you are a science denier.

  2. Jared Black on March 27, 2020 at 10:44 am

    That’s “If you believe the computer generated predictions of global warming, you are a science denier. “

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