Book review: What If Jesus Had Never Been Born

I have been reading an excellent book detailing the impact of Christianity on the various spheres of life in the last 20 centuries. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the topic.

Title: What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?
Authors: D. James Kennedy & Jerry Newcombe

Here are some topics discussed in the book:

World History / Value of Human Life / Compassion / Education / Founding of America / Civil Liberities / Science / Economics / Sex (Viewed Biblically) / Medicine / Morality / Art...

This is a look at the 'Science' chapter. It is listing Christians who FOUNDED BRANCHES OF SCIENCE:

(This is NOT a comprehensive list of all Scientists who founded branches of science that were Christian, more of a sampling)

Antiseptic surgery -- Joseph Lister
Bacteriology -- Louis Pasteur
Calculus -- Isaac Newton
Celestial Mechanics -- Johannes Kepler
Chemistry -- Robert Boyle
Comparative Anatomy -- Georges Cuvier
Computer Science -- Charles Babbage
Dimensional Analysis -- Lord Rayleigh
Dynamics -- Issac Newton
Electronics -- John Ambrose Fleming
Electrodynamics -- James Clerk Maxwell
Electromagnetics -- Michael Faraday
Energetics -- Lord Kelvin
Entomology of Living Insects -- Henri Fabre
Field Theory -- Micheal Faraday
Fluid Mechanics -- George Stokes
Galactic Astronomy -- Sir William Herschel
Gas Dynamics -- Robert Boyle
Genetics -- Gregor Mendel
Glacial Geology -- Louis Agassiz
Gynecology -- James Simpson
Hydrography -- Matthew Maury
Hydrostatics -- Blaise Pascal
Ichthyology -- Louis Agassiz
Isotopic Chemistry -- William Ramsey
Model Analysis -- Lord Rayleigh
Natural History -- John Ray
Non-Euclidean Geometry -- Bernard Reimann
Oceanography -- Matthew Maury
Optical Mineralogy -- David Brewster


So, could somebody explain to me again how faith is 'anti-thetical' to Science? Perhaps our understanding of an orderly set of rules that a God of order established for His creation made us expect to FIND an underlying set of orderly rules. The same holds true for mathematics, music, economics and others...

If you get the chance to check out this book, do so.