[Tailgunner Joe]

Scientific knowledge in Europe flourished during the period known as the Renaissance, long before the French "Enlightenment." The enlightenment had little to do with science and a lot to do with "philosophers," who dreamed up new moral frameworks in a futile attempt to replace traditional Judeo-Christian morality. The result was the socialist anti-Christian French Revolution and later Soviet Communism and its offshoots, Fascism and Nazism.