What influences have western religions had on science?

Jumper WR: What influences have western religions had on science?
Have they helped or hindered progress in science? Be sure to include the ancient Greeks and roman religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Also include resources.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Matthew
Science is merely the handmaid of religion.

Answer by Take it from Vince!!!
Hindered, heliocentric theory and the like.

Answer by Adam (Mad Scientist) backup
catholics invented the whole damn thing

Answer by Anonymous
Dunno, they burned people who were smart for like 500 years.

Answer by Lord Sesshomaru ✿殺生殿✿
They’ve set it back at least 600 years.

(I have no “resources” left; after all, it’s Christmas.)

Answer by Bad Horse
This sounds like homework. But classically, many of the greatest scientists were very devout. In post-Darwin times, things have begun to change =/

Answer by Kirk
Their biggest contribution has been backing off.The argument could be made that Greek polytheism was beneficial especially with Heron of Alexandria’s nifty temple machines but as far as christianity it’s been detrimental from the start.

Answer by No Chance Without Jesus
Psudeo Science is the religion of Humanism

Answer by Not of this God
It’s helped slow it down.

Answer by Angel
Definitely hindered.
from Islam we got the astrolabe, inoculations, and a ton of other s***

Answer by Gary F
Christianity has been waging a relentless war against science and all knowledge that does not conform to their “divine truth” for the last 2,000 years.

Christian rule suppressed all secular knowledge and criminalized the pursuit of scientific knowledge for almost 1,500 years of Western European history. It is called the Dark Ages and you can easily find information on that period.

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Adam (Mad Scientist) backup —

“Catholics invented the whole damn thing?”

Do you mean the same Catholics who did not forgive Galileo until 1992?

Now that’s funny. I don’t care who you are.

Answer by The Lord of Dreams
They have both helped and hindered in passing down the secrets of the ancient Egyptian Ra worshippers.

Answer by md.faraz
islam played a very key role in science….their are many scientific facts in holy quran…….one of them is big bang theory…….in surah anbiya ayat no.30 it is written “Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them” ….

allah tells us in holy quran about the solar system in Sura Al-Rad (13:2)

“Allah it is Who raised up the heavens without visible supports, then mounted the Throne, and compelled the sun and the moon to be of service, each runneth unto an appointed term; He ordereth the course; He detaileth the revelations, that haply ye may be certain of the meeting with your Lord”

Another truth revealed in the Qur’an is the expansion of the universe that was discovered in the late 1920s. Hubble’s discovery of the red shift in the spectrum of starlight is revealed in the Qur’an as: It is We Who have built the universe with (Our creative) power, and, verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it. (Surat adh-Dhariyat: 47)

Answer by Slick
Many Western religions served to pull people together and enable them to resist barbarians that continually threatened civilizations. Tracing modern science back through the thousands of years places most innovation within the most religious Western nations, most notably where Christianity flourished. Practically nothing of importance by comparison to the sum came out of religions at war with Christians and Jews. While it is true some few science events were retarded by such as Muslims and the Catholic Church, Western communities overall enjoyed long-held freedoms to experiment in science concepts, and still do. Wherever religion is suppressed or forced, as in Indonesia and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, scientific innovation is virtually absent or stolen/coerced (do it or die).

Answer by Nowpower
You don’t get to order up an essay. But here’s a contribution:

In 1926, Scopes vs. The State of Tennessee, known informally as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case that tested the Butler Act which made it unlawful “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals” in any Tennessee state-funded school and university.