I'll take the Enlightenment over the Dark Ages. Fascinating how much we learned once we determined that "God did it" wasn't a sufficient explanation.
The "Dark Age" is a myth created by Italian secular humanists and perpetuated by their fellow humanists throughout history. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The Enlightenment did not succeed the Dark Ages. In between there were some 10 centuries comprising the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Science was born long before the Enlightenment, and it was born in the Christian world (Europe). Somehow that "Christian Taliban" which atheists always think is lurking right under the bed, waiting to annihilate science, just couldn't do the job. Most early scientists were Christians, and many modern scientists are, also. Very few are dogmatic atheists.
What "dark ages?" Are you referring perhaps to King Solomon, who knew more than you ever will?
Fascinating how much we learned once we determined that "God did it" wasn't a sufficient explanation.
Fascinating how much the Jewish Sages knew thousands of years before Copernicus or Bacon or Voltaire.
BTW, what was the name of the scientist who discovered objective morality? After all, we don't need G-d to have one, do we? I'm sure someone found it in a test tube in the nineteenth century.