Colson On Science's Christian Origin

The belief of Christians in reason—the very meaning of Logos—also drove the scientific revolution. In fact, science itself might never have been invented if not for Christianity’s belief that all the world could be explored for God’s glory, thus initiating the inductive methods essential to scientific advance. It did not develop earlier where it might have, in the civilizations of China and Islam, which possessed sufficient wealth and technical expertise. These civilizations lacked the necessary faith; that human reason could discover the Reason in all things. The great figures of the scientific revolution, Mendel, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Boyle, were all profound Christians.

—Chuck Colson, The Faith (Zondervan, 2008), p. 214.