I have recently been involved in an argument online which is a very common argument and one which annoys me just a little. It is also an argument which I have had many times before with Christians. The claim goes something like this:

“Christianity is responsible for the development of science.”

The word science can be swopped with hospital, charity, education and so on. In the case in hand, there were statements such as:

“the essential neccesity of Christianity to the origin...