MYTH BUSTERS: Claims of an Anti-Science Christian ‘Dark Age’ Are Groundless And Misleading

Conventional campus wisdom for several decades has taught successive generations of college graduates that the period from 500 A.D. to 1,500 A.D. were the “Dark Ages” because the dominant Christian church political and religious establishment barred scientific inquiry.

As is so often the case, however, the facts of history point to the opposite conclusion, according to science historian Michael Keas. The reality is that the foundations of modern scientific inquiry were begun to be laid by St. Augustine early in the Fifth Century and things really got going on the science front when the church establishment backed the establishment of what came to be what we know today as universities.

Keas elaborates on this point in the following 2:31 video courtesy of Discovery Science and based on his book, “Unbelievable: Seven Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion,” published by the Inter-collegiate Studies Institute (ISI).

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