The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions were probably a direct result of the Christian perspective, and damn lucky on the odds table. The event is a possible answer to Fermi's Paradox: In the probabilistic course of events, intelligent species are all at Bronze or Iron Age levels of technology riding around using animal locomotion until they inevitably go extinct.

Our current philosophy of science is a direct descendant of Christian doctrine. It is filled with notions such as "Grace", understood as the distance or degree of separation of the individual from God. This is a geometrical thought picture that probably translates into something very like modern gauge theories in physics. Even the concept of gravitational mass in Newtonian theory is brimming with this idea. Saint Augustine packed a lot of Greek philosophy into Christian doctrine that later emerged in medieval times as part of the foundations of science.

The founding of the Royal Society (of which David Deutsch is a Fellow) was one of the key factors in the development of modern science. The Royal Society singlehandedly put experimentation on the map.

There is no reason to believe that a society will inevitably develop a scientific culture which clears the ground for rapid technological development. Egypt went on for a long time without ever developing a notion of science. The Greeks came much closer, but still fell short in many ways. It is not even certain that one can safely assume that, just because it happened once, it will inevitably happen again after the next dark age.