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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.

I believe the last paragraph from that blog entry sums up your view on this matter, too. The anti-science crowd and their Ben Stein revisionist history, dominates this site now.

I could go on with about fifty more reasons that Stein and his promoters are personifications of everything that caused Auschwitz. But suffice it to say that we owe him a debt of gratitude. The pretense is over. He has said it openly. Till, now, the fundies have been claiming that they respect science but only want it opened up a bit. Now the real party line has been drawn. It is the fundies against science. Not fighting for openness in classrooms. Not seeking equal time. But hating the very thing that made our Great Experiment possible. Sons and daughter of Ben Franklin, stand up.