The confrontation of
Graeco-Roman culture with biblical religion engendered, after centuries of tension, a new
science. This science preserved the
indispensable parts of the ancient heritage (mathematics, logic, methods of observation and experimentation), but it
was directed by different social and methodological conceptions, largely stemming from a biblical worldview. Metaphorically speaking, whereas the
bodily ingredients
of science may have been Greek, its vitamins and hormones were
biblical. Hooykas, Religion and the Rise
of Modern
Science,
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