06.01.11
Science and its histories
New Book Sheds Light on the “Dark Age”: The Religion vs. Science Myth Exposed
These Christians authors never give up, and here’s another futile effort in the genre of ascribing science to Christianity. It won’t work, and has totally confused the issue. I agree completely with efforts to redress the balance against extreme claims here, but the evidence shows clearly that the first visible ‘scientific revolution’ occurred in Ancient Axial Age Greece (leaving open the proto-science being born in Egypt/Sumer), followed by its relative delcine in the middle periods, with some efforts in China, Islamic regions, and the medieval Christian world to keep something afloat, and with some work in these areas, to be sure.
The overwhelming acceleration of science in the early modern, sixteenth, then especially the seventeenth, makes anything in the medieval world or the so-called (pseudo-) Renaissance look ridiculous by comparison.
I will try to read this book nonetheless, but all the books in the genre end up confusing the issue.