The infamous Christian attack on science

'One of the most harmful accusations that has ever been brought against the Church is the claim that it has always been against science in particular and progress in general.' - Edward Coleson (see notes)

Comments;

1. I hate to admit it, but there's a lot of truth to this charge. Christian thinkers in the last few centuries were (and this is sad to report) very much opposed to the science of alchemy and even (alas) astrology. Later they were against Phrenology and Eugenics. It will do Christians no good to deny these things, as the evidence is undeniable.

2. But on a serious note. This is an ironic charge, as without Truth we cannot even know what progress is... or even if it's possible. What is called progress is usually merely what the political rulers of the day want. (As we know, the Russian revolution - instigated by Lenin and German gold - was called by its leaders great progress. It was not called this by the tens of millions who died in the barbarism that followed.)
- Progress is a meaningless concept in terms of evolutionary theory; as supposedly it (E.) is non-teleological, and has no goal or ideal in mind.

3. To make good on this bogus charge (of Christians being against science) atheist scholars have done their best to trash the so called Middle Ages; claiming falsely that there was no material progress, that there were no inventions, etc. (Humanist (revisionist) history is largely a collection of lies and distortions directed against Christians and Christianity. This is not all it is, but this is what is specializes in; especially works of the last 200 years.)

4. In my opinion it's meaningless to say Christians are against science. What could that possibly mean? (Are all Christians the same? Hardly.) This is as stupid and false a charge as any that's ever been levelled. There is no proof of it at all. To be against some one thing (lets say Phrenology) is not to be against 'science.' I can't imagine how it's even possible to be against science, as science is a universal. No group at any time has been against all science. What is usually being referred to is being against a particular bit of technology... or some new way of doing things.
- Many Christians were against phrenology because its adherents offered it as a purely materialistic explanation of human behavior.

Notes;
1. Galileo: Martyr for Science? - Edward Coleson (Online at CSSHSQJ)
2. Christians were also against the idea of vestigial organs, and the Darwinian fantasy called foetal recapitulation (i.e. of evolution) How silly is it that evolutionists called this fantastic notion a 'law of nature, a law of biology'?
- 'The theory formulated by E.H. Haeckel that individuals in their embryonic development pass through stages similar in general structural plan to the stages their species passed through in its evolution.' (When I was growing up this was scientific orthodoxy, and Christians were mocked for not accepting it. Now I check Wikipedia and I'm told the theory is no longer accepted.)
3. Having defended c. against the attacks of atheists let me point out that the c. must not make a god out of 'science' as so many Humanists have done. By this I mean the idea there are no limits to what men can do... that nothing possible should be called evil, that nothing should be out of bounds. I mean the idea the earth belongs to man and he can do with it as he pleases. No. The world (and all in it) belong to god.
4. You can't be against science and progress because these are just words; people who make these charges are philosophically naive at best.
5. Christians can only be against technology and/or science if what people say or do violates god's word or god's law. (If this happens Christians must ''contend for the faith once and for all given to the saints...'' - Jude) What does this imply? In brief I would say it involves a critique of all materialist accounts of human life. It involves a refutation of all reductionism. It denies man is an animal, or can be treated as an animal. etc. (This is a complicated subject, and no one has all the answers.)
5. We should note that it's true that Christians have at times opposed technological innovations. The early Christians (for instance) were against the new technology called crucifixion.