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I’m not aware of any anti-science people here. I am aware of those who follow Christ, but for the most part they are very pro-science, as they see it as the study of God’s creation.

Or was your comment just a cheap shot at those who trust in God and His Scriptures?

Thank God for the Christians, who brought us through the “Dark Age,” guarding the collected knowledge of humanity for a time when we’d appreciate it.

I’m not aware of any anti-science people here. I am aware of those who follow Christ, but for the most part they are very pro-science, as they see it as the study of God’s creation.

You should be aware of the anti-science attitude here. It has already driven a lot of the scientists who used to post away.

Or was your comment just a cheap shot at those who trust in God and His Scriptures?

Post a solid science thread and see how long it takes for fundamentalists to gather to poke at science and scientists.

Thank God for the Christians, who brought us through the “Dark Age,” guarding the collected knowledge of humanity for a time when we’d appreciate it.

That is not necessarily the case. Here is an alternate opinion: The Myth of Christianity Founding Modern Science and Medicine.

Thank God for the Christians, who brought us through the “Dark Age,” guarding the collected knowledge of humanity for a time when we’d appreciate it.

Christians did some of that, but was Arab Muslims who did much of it. Even though they'd mostly stolen the knowledge from other cultures, including European.

For example, they stole the notion of "zero" as a place holder, from the Indians, and brought it to Spain, which they occupied during much of the Dark Ages. For the Dark Ages were mostly just dark in Europe, a consequence of the fall of the Roman Empire, and the attacks of the Muslims and the Mongols farther east.

Europeans were as likely to burn the old books, as to save and preserve them. (Of course that was somewhat true of the Arabs as well, and definitely true of the Mongols).

I don't think the original poster mentioned any religion, just anti science folks. For example while not a FReeper, Senator Proxmire was pretty anti science, especially basic science, but I haven't a clue if he was particularly religious, but he was a member of the United Church of Christ, not exactly a fundamentalist denomination.

The Dark Ages were called just that because CHristianity sought to destroy human knowledge if it in any way countered what the church wanted people to believe. The Renniasance and the Enlightenment changed all that. The Dark Ages, when everyone in the West was Christian and theocratic Church rule was absolute was a black hole of knowledge and literacy. It was a great leap backwards from the days of the Romans and Greeks.