HappySqurriel said:
I don't want to get into the middle of this, because I'm willing to admit that I have fairly limited information, but the anti-Catholic Church propaganda over the past several generations has been highly effective at spreading misinformation. The post I responded to (which started this entire side track) demonstrated one very well known myth; that scientific information was "lost" in the dark ages because of religion. It is (somewhat) true that the Ancient Romans had an advanced understanding of many scientific areas of study, but there were several reasons why it was "lost" that had little to do with religion. The core reason that there is evidence for is that most information on a lot of fields was not really shared all that well; in a large part because keeping information secret gave people power. An example of what I'm talking about is that many acts of gods in religious temples were created using machines; and these machines were based on many of the same principles that were taken advantage of to start the industrial revolution. Unfortunately, a plague, famine or war could kill off the people who built these machines; and the information about how they were produced would die with them. |
Yeah, i've seen a few of those machines... or at least the remade versions. Quite ingenious stuff really.
