[keiferski]

Where did I say that ancient Greek mathematics wasn't sophisticated? In addition to that, a sizable portion of ancient Greek thinkers would not really be considered "polytheistic" in the traditional sense and their focus on God being infinite, endless etc. is largely the source of such ideas in early Christianity and Islam.

> It was not until the fusion of Platonic and Aristotelian theology with Christianity that the concepts of strict omnipotence, omniscience, or benevolence became commonplace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_Ancient_Greek...

It's a basic historical fact that mathematics in Europe accelerated dramatically from the Renaissance onwards. This isn't really debatable.

[snowpid]

I doubt that Platon thought was like 'their focus on God being infinite, endless etc. '. Also Renaissance was very less Christian as the Middle Age. Newton e.g. was less Christian than you assume.

[keiferski]

The entire philosophy of Plato is about eternal forms. That’s probably the single most influential idea.

As I said above, the important cultural group was not recently converted Christians, but those that had grown up for centuries in Christian culture. As in, the entire Middle Ages…which led to the Renaissance.

Newton was a devout Christian. While he had unorthodox views, this is irrelevant for the point I’m making. It has nothing to do with the specifics of Christian denominations, rather the idea of an eternal and unchanging God.