Christians often get a bad rap when it comes to science. Long before Bill Nye went head-to-head with Ken Ham, believers were mocked for not accepting science — or evolution or The Flood or climate change.

But Christianity and science actually work very well together. The scientific method was developed over long centuries during the Christian Middle Ages, and even today many cutting-edge scientists express a firm belief in Jesus Christ. The hard-nosed, empirical study of nature was born among those who believed in miracles.

Science from Faith

In his book The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution, James Hannam explains how Galileo’s revolutionary understanding of motion and the heavens came from a long tradition of medieval natural philosophy. Obscure thinkers like John Buridan tried to explain the workings of nature, laying the groundwork for modern science.

Hannam brilliantly explodes the myth that there was no scientific progress between the time of ancient Greeks and the Scientific Revolution. Europe witnessed a population explosion during the Early Middle Ages, due to innovations like the plow, the horseshoe, crop rotation, and windmills. The development of ideas was even more impressive, however.

Read the article “Are Christianity and Science Incompatible?” on pjmedia.com.