Reddit reviews When Science and Christianity Meet

If you truly believe that, I encourage you to study the origins of science and the beginnings of the so-called "conflict thesis" that you are taking as true. This book might be an interesting place to start: https://www.amazon.com/When-Science-Christianity-David-Lindberg/dp/0226482162.

Those guys are horrible at history. I would recommend going to /r/badhistory for rebuttals, in the meantime I found some books that I think can really help out debunking this myth.

Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction

Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology

Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

When Science and Christianity Meet

The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution

The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450

The Savior of Science

For the Glory of God

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo

Yes this is a long list but that's because it's studied so often ;). I hope this helps.

I run into stuff like this, too. The ideas our cultures hold about things and how they actually are are very different, but if you took the time to research every cultural idea... you'd never do anything else :) I like to think I can be as graceful as you when this happens to me but, realistically, it's not always so.

Here are two great books on medieval history, if you're interested. They're where I started. From their bibliographies, you can branch out and go more in-depth:

The Medieval Church: A Brief History. The book is expensive, but Lynch is pretty easy to read.

Medieval Civilization 400-1500. Le Goff is a Romanophile, so he at times elevates Roman civilization. And he can be a little dry. But at the same time, he's very fair and the dryness is because he goes into good detail and depth.

Here's one on the development of science:

The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science. It's been a long time since I've read this one. I need to find it and reread it.

A great resource for how science and Christianity have historically interacted, written by historians of many different faiths (including atheists and agnostics) is:

When Science and Christianity Meet. This book addresses several incidents, some of which are famous and poorly-understood, and some of which are relatively unremembered by popular culture.