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" hoping this article shows some light to the intellect, science, and culture that came from the Middle Ages.
May people begin to see history for the way it is, rather than for how it has been presented throughout the ages."

Much depends on precisely how we define the term "Middle Ages".
The centuries following the Western Roman Empire's fall are usually called "Dark Ages", followed by "Middle Ages" then "Renaissance" in Western Europe.

Of course, the Dark Ages were not so dark in the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Renaissance is said to have begun & ended over a period of centuries, depending on which part of Europe we're talking about.
The Middle Ages themselves are often divided into Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages, each with distinguishing characteristics, depending on time and place.

But the bottom line is: if we pick out just the best of each age, then it will have much to recommend it.
Conversely, if we focus on just the worst of each age, then it will have much to condemn.

Just as Charles Dickens said of Paris and London during the French Revolution:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."