Francis schaeffer on the future of science in the (post)modern world

Schaeffer says:

Whitehead and Oppenheimer said modern science could not have been born except in the milieu of Christianity. Why? In the area of biblical Christianity, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Francis Bacon -- all these men, up to Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell -- understood that there was a universe because God had made it. And they believed, as Whitehead has so beautifully said, that because God was a reasonable God one could discover the truth of the universe by reason. So modern science was born. The Greeks had almost all the facts that the early scientists had, but it never turned into a science like modern science. This came, as Whitehead said, out of the fact that these men really were sure that the truth of the universe could be pursued with reason because it had been made by a reasonable God.

I do not believe for a moment that if the men back at that point of history had had the philosophy, the epistemology of modern man, there would ever have been modern science.  I also think science as we have known it is going to die. I think it is going to be reduced to two things: mere technology, and another form of sociological manipulation. I do not believe for a moment that science is going to be able to continue with its objectivity once the base that brought forth science has been totally destroyed. But one thing I am sure of, and that is that science never would have begun if men had had the uncertainty that modern man has in the area of epistemology.

He is There and He is Not Silent in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer. vol 1. A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture. Crossway: Wheaton, IL. 1985. p. 328