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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.
