Do you know, historically, how the "dark ages" got their name - why they are called as such? They disappeared when the biblical texts were once again brought to light. If we want more dark ages we can indulge the intellectual rut perpetrated over the past 150 years suggesting (as if it were real science) that history is a billion-year concoction of happenstance.
If the past 150 years have been an "intellectual rut" how do you explain the great leaps in science and tech we have made during that time period?