What made Western creativity possible? And why is it waning? by Lawrence Auster

Here is an e-mail I wrote to Fjordman:

I just came upon this essay by you on whether the ancient Greeks could have carried out the Scientific Revolution. You make valuable points. First, you show the limitations of the Greek culture that would have prevented them from creating modern science. (It's no accident that the ancient Greek culture came to an end so quickly, as, despite its unique greatness, it had inner limitations it could not surmount.) Second, you show how Christianity added understandings to the Western consciousness that made modern science and other achievements possible. In the below passage, you get at the key point, which I would put this way: the belief that truth objectively exists outside us, that truth is real and valuable and meaningful, is what makes the highest human creativity, including scientific discovery, possible. And this understanding of truth comes from Christianity.

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