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Whitewashing history? The earliest methodology recognisable as a scientific method comes from the Islamic Golden Age. Before that we see the emergence of elements as far back as the ancient Greeks. The emergence of the modern scientific method in Europe came from enlightenment values. They are Greek in origin. Christianity opposed methodical naturalism and it took hold DESPITE the dominance of Christianity in Western Europe, not because of it. And Meyer knows this.