> acquisition of knowledge metaphysically requires distance from, and ultimately denial of, God Historians James R. Jacob and Margaret C. Jacob have argued for

> acquisition of knowledge metaphysically requires distance from, and ultimately denial of, God Historians James R. Jacob and Margaret C. Jacob have argued for a linkage between seventeenth-century Anglican intellectual transformations and influential English scientists (e.g., Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton). Philosopher of Religion, Richard Jones, has written a philosophical critique of the "dependency thesis" which assumes that modern science emerged from Christian sources and doctrines. Though he acknowledges that modern science emerged in a religious framework, that Christianity greatly elevated the importance of science by sanctioning and religiously legitimizing it in the medieval period, and that Christianity created a favorable social context for it to grow; he argues that direct Christian beliefs or doctrines were not primary sources of scientific pursuits by natural philosophers, nor was Christianity, in and of itself, exclusively or directly necessary in developing or practicing modern science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_religion_and_science#Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_religion_...