| Smidlee said: There is no hint that the Pope or anyone else slow down science one bit during the Medieval times. Anyone who even played Medieval Total War would know this. One of the things that drives science is war. If there one thing Roman Empire was good at was war. Also from what I've read from history it was Galileo's arrogance as well as belittling the wrong people (including those who support him) that got Galileo in trouble more than his idea. In fact even the church took Galileo's position before there were hard evidence to back it up. |
A few things:
- Galileo didn't live in medieval times. The church also forced him to recant his notion of Heliocentrism and then imprisoned him. Whatever the reasons (and Galileo did burn quite a few bridges), that's a blatant case of church slowing down and restricting science.
- The Spanish Inquisition says "hi".
- Religion controlled science during most of the Medieval period. Not surprisingly, it's one of the most dormant scientific times in human history, despite the fact that wars were abundant and everyone was in a battle of one sort or another. It wasn't until the Renaissance when the Catholic Church first starting seeing its stranglehold on the public loosen that we saw the emergence of true science.
- Did you seriously reference a video game as historical fact?
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