Ben Stein to take on Darwinism on April 18

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Smidlee said:

rocketpig said:

 

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- 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?

Can a game add in historical facts ? Yes it can.

Also I notice you said "True science". When it can to science even Spain ignore the Pope. Kind of like trying to stop people from pirating PC games as science offering too much to turn away from it.

Also one of the greatest invention of all time came about during this period which open the doors to a whole new world; The print press. Even in Medieval times there were great leaps in knowledge and now finally man had an invention to make print easier and faster then ever before. So of course knowledge started to increase greatly after the printing press just as the internet/ Cable open up new door of information today. To say they didn't have "true science " when comparing to ours is like saying they didn't have "true weapons"(guns) when compared to ours.

 

The printing press is also considered to be a device that brought the religous text to the common man and removed some of the ability for corrupt priests and kings to warp its words as a means to control the people. Its not surprising that one of the greatest inventions during a time that religion was used to stifle science is an invention that allowed scienctists to overcome that stifling. It also allowed scientists to communicate and share ideas like never before which also had a profound effect in pushing things forward.