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Please follow the HN guidelines and remain personally respectful.

Also, please abstain from flamewars on this site, especially religious flamewars.

I respect anyone who asks for data, actually. I just respect them more if they ask for data from everybody, not just me.

(Also, it's nice if what they ask for can be answered with unequivocal objective data, which I'm sure you'll agree isn't the case with cscurmudgeon's request.)

Social scientists and historians engage in data collection and processing like the one you described almost all the time.

There is a ton of data out there.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=christianity+and+science...

Go back to my original assertion ("If you weren't devoutly religious, you didn't get the support from society you needed to do science.") You hear stranger stuff from your clergyman every Sunday. Do you hold him to the same standard of proof?

Why do you think I believe in Christianity or what the clergy say? I don't.

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