Let me end this chapter by suggesting that religion has done something for science. The latter came to full flower in its modern form in seventeenth-century Europe. Have you ever wondered why that’s so? After all, the ancient Greeks were pretty clever and the Chinese achieved a sophisticated culture well before we Europeans did, yet they didn’t hit on science as we now understand it. Quite a lot of people have thought that the missing ingredient was provided by the Christian religion. Of course,