[editor-surveyor]

"guess who had the knowledge and preserved it in the dark ages. the same people who started universities"

Yes, and those people were the leaders of the major protestant churches. In the U.S. for example, the only non-government major university that was not started by Christian churches is Stanford.

[HayekRocks]

In the U.S. for example, the only non-government major university that was not started by Christian churches is Stanford.

The University of Chicago was founded by John D Rockefeller. Surely you would consider it a major university? It was the site of the first controlled fission reaction, and the home of more Nobel Prize economists than any other institution.

Johns Hopkins seems to be another exception to your claim.

[Gumlegs]

Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon don't count.