<p>You’re ignoring Catholic schools, many of which have impressive graduate programs in science and mathematics, but I’ll put that aside to answer one of your questions.</p>
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Some of the greatest minds of old Europe were Christian, generally in the time when just about everyone in Europe was Christian and just about every college was Christian. Copernicus, a Catholic monk, made advances in the time when all the universities around him were Catholic, as did Catholic lay-person Galileo. Isaac Newton was a Christian of sorts (though he called worshiping Christ as God idolatry) and a scientist in the time that Oxford and Cambridge had deep ties to the Church of England.</p>
<p>In modern times, however, the secular universities prevail, being seen as embodying the principle of separating religion from other matters (despite histories of excluding Catholics and Jews and other religions). The vocal minority of Christians who think science is a lie and that evolution and the Big Bang are wrong have biased people into thinking the view of the average Christian is that the universe was created on Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC, while the truth of the matter is that many of even this past century’s great scientists have had religious convictions (Albert Einstein, a Jew, was very religious, as was his Christian friend Father Georges Lema</p>