dark ages

The Argument: Christianity could not have invented Science. Science, as we know it was (arguably) started in Ancient Greece. Their philosophers and engineers had invented or discovered by observation such things as the fact that the Earth is round, hydraulic cement that was not rediscovered...

Inspired from discussion on "The Dark Ages are coming back fast… " , would one ever want to live 'back then', where 'back then' is any time in the past? Who'd want to forsake all the improvements that we know have occured since that time in the past? Or, would you forsake the known...

The end of the 11/10/06 commentary was interesting: "The Dark Ages are coming back fast… " It doesn't really seem like that at all IMO. Of course, "Dark Ages" is just obvious exxageration, probably emotional at that, but it seems like we've lost the Dark Ages and have been moving away from...