Joel Kontinen
Skeptics will tell us that the Middle Ages were exceptionally dark, at least in the intellectual and scientific realm. However, historians would disagree as many great inventions were made during that period .
When it comes to the dark agers, Atheists, like Bill Nye the “Science Guy,” or celebrity astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, or the late Carl Sagan are /were telling a story that is not factual.
To combat the error, Michael Newton Keas has authored a book entitled “Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion.”
“Keas notes that Christians invented the institution of the university, in which ‘30 percent of the curriculum was devoted to science.’ He cites the example of Roger Bacon, an English monk and natural philosopher (1214-1292) whose work considered the properties of light and other scientific questions. “
However; It flatters die-hard secularists, to forget all this.
Source:
Klinghoffer, David, 2019. “No Astronomical Investigations of Importance” in the Middle Ages? Not True! Evolution news and views. (29 January).
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