> There is an argument to be made that Christianity's focus on truth at all costs helped science rather than hinder it In certain respects, such as Roger Bacon

> There is an argument to be made that Christianity's focus on truth at all costs helped science rather than hinder it In certain respects, such as Roger Bacon's advocacy of the scientific method and Gregor Mendel's discovery of the rules of inheritance, perhaps. In others, such as the Church's persecution of Galileo and Giordano Bruno, perhaps not.