christianity is one of the few, if not the only, framework that would make it possible for it to arise
If by Christianity you mean the particular trend in Catholic thought that bred the Renaissance, then yes, you are absolutely right. This trend is called Humanism. If you were a Humanist, we would not be having this argument, though.
If you were even in agreement with the current Catholic trend, which is not Humanism but rather a rational form of Fundamentalism, we
still would not be having this argument. It is
only because you have chosen the most irrational form of Fundamentalism, namely Literalism, Evangelical variety, that you are in this boat. You have wilfully chosen to believe a lie, because you would rather have a God that you can understand and label than a real transcendent one.
This is the "Christianity" that burned the Alchemists and persecuted Galileo, the Christianity that would have rather not have the Bible translated, the Xianity that goes to whatever means are necessary to keep men in absolute bondage to their own ignorance. This is the pseudo-faith that gave us the Auto-da-fe and the Inquisition and still gives us cross-burnings and clinic-bombings.
"A man, though naked, may yet be in rags."
I can't remember the name of the guy who found it,
Hippasus. Yeah, they threw him off the boat. He fucked up their
fiat quantum theory. Theodorus, Eudoxus and Euclid cleaned him up a bit though, their rationalization was that magnitudes aren't the same as particles. Real quantum theory eventually cleaned them up in turn, turns out magnitudes
are waveforms, the real solution is a lack of perfect exponents (no real right angles for example, curved dimensions only, very good ellipses rather than real circles.)
Anyway, note that the Greeks knew more than the Church ever even had time to get around to burning people for. Heraclitus knew that matter was energy ("fire") and even Ovid knew that the earth was round.
Metamorphoses writes:
Then God (whichever God it was,
That could do the things that this one does)
Wanting all things equal, each in all
Rolled all that shit into a ball ...
Edited by Iblis, : the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon