/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11826469
>We're back at the intellectual decay phase that humanity goes through every couple of centuries where it just slips into a dark age of political or religious fundamentalism destroying any and all scientific progress otherwise made
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>>10719820
>>10719831
It’s true. Anyone who uses the term “dark ages” unironically this way is just literally revealing how ignorant they are of real history.
>Most modern historians do not use the term "dark ages", preferring terms such as Early Middle Ages. But when used by some historians today, the term "Dark Ages" is meant to describe the economic, political, and cultural problems of the era.[37][38] For others, the term Dark Ages is intended to be neutral, expressing the idea that the events of the period seem 'dark' to us because of the paucity of the historical record.[11]
>However, from the later 20th century onwards, other historians became critical even of this nonjudgmental use of the term, for two main reasons.[11] Firstly, it is questionable whether it is ever possible to use the term in a neutral way: scholars may intend this, but ordinary readers may not understand it so. Secondly, 20th-century scholarship had increased understanding of the history and culture of the period,[45] to such an extent that it is no longer really 'dark' to us.[11] To avoid the value judgment implied by the expression, many historians now avoid it altogether.[46][47]
Not to mention the Church was basically the only intellectual and educational institution that existed at the time, conserving and extending the work of the ancients, trying to protect this scholarly work from marauding warlords and bandits.

>>10581987
I didn't intend as such; rather just to highlight the Bible.

>>9992915
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>>7025087
>mfw people still believe this