[bdeaner]

But some well-meaning, but clearly overzealous people, seem to think that defending the church today, means trying to justify anything they did back then.

The main problem is that you seem to misunderstand the point of the article. The point of the article is not to justify what the Church did. IT DOES NOT JUSTIFY. The point is that the Church was not, and is not, fundamentally anti-science, as it is typically protrayed to be (like in the stupid movie based on the Brown book). Never was, never will be. And that is not revisionist history. Science as we know it did not emerge in ANY OTHER culture than the one laid down by Christianity. That's not just a coincidence. Think about it.

[DesertRhino]

Well theres plenty of non christian roots of science, the Greeks did science, So did the Chinese, and certainly the Egyptians did. Euclid wrote his book on Geometry too,,,
It goes on and on.