The printing press is an invention, not science.

When I reference "true science", I mean science unhindered by outside influences.

Then again because of science and techology now the government has the power to track and control even more people than ever. Even a King back then had the power that governments have today . It possible they had more freedom under a Monarchy than our Democracy today since a king could only do but so much. So now we have come a full circle.

The printing press is an invention, not science. My statement still holds true about Medieval times. Take astronomy, for example. Huge advances were made during Roman times and then very little happened until the Renaissance and Copernicus. The Medieval period was a black hole for the scientific community.

The Spanish Inquisition may not have been ordered by the Pope, but that's not what you said in your OP. You mentioned "the pope or anyone else" in reference to religious figures. The Spanish Inquisition was fueled by religious figures, was it not? Did they not constrain scientific figures and ban scientific texts?

When I reference "true science", I mean science unhindered by outside influences. If science was contrained by religion during Medieval times, it's hard to consider it "true science". Even many of the Renaissance scientific discoveries were hindered and challenged by a powerful religious state. It's only been in the last two centuries that we have seen a scientific community fueled by their own will and desire for knowledge.

Sure, you can use video games as reference but that doesn't mean it's correct, especially when you use it to try to prove that most scientific advancements happen during wartime. It's akin to using the movie The Day After Tomorrow to prove the science behind global warming.

All inventions is based on science. Also science always has outside influences as science needs time and money ; thus not very far from politics. Thus science really grew during WW2 when government was throwing money like mad at science. Even today a lot of our science is the result to invent weapons of war (get an advantage).

We are far from full circile right now.

Now I'll admit technology is used in a lot of ways that I'd rather it not be but we are a long way off from people being beaten because they look at a Lord or Lady directly in the eyes. We have our atrocities still no doubt, but we are far from the dark ages.

Stop cherry-picking my posts. That's the second time you've done it. What about the other points I made?

Technically, an invention is loosely related to science. But in the traditional sense, when someone mentions "science", they're talking about biology, astronomy, geology, any of the "ology" or "omy" words. After all, that is the latin root. If you want to start including inventions, you could use anything from the bow and arrow (physics, gravity) to the nuclear bomb (fission) to show "science". Advancements in science may have allowed the invention of the device (sometimes related to the actual creation of said weapon, eg. atomic weaponry) but the device itself is not "science".

Pray tell, what science was involved in the printing press? Ink? Levers? Pulleys? Paper processing? All things that man had mastered centuries previous to the press. It's a combination of other ideas, not science.

It not even that scientific progress was slowed or stopped during medieval times.  Its that we went backwards hundreds of years.  The Greeks and Romans were far more advanced civilizations than anything up until the Renaissance.  We lost alot of knowledge during this time period.  Religion played a central role in this process.