Fidel! -Rhythm

I agree

Change is a necessary part of life, and thus it must be for a forum as well.

It has indeed been a long time. Things have certainly changed a lot here!

Hello Brian ^_^

Oi, Fidel! Long time, mate.

Sup

So again nice try Bel

His whole book is apologetics . Very subtle revisionism but revisionism none the less (oh and qualifications don't equal honesty )

The Guardian is a tabloid with a shoddy track record

The Guardian's reviewer is a Research Affiliate at the British Library with degrees from Oxford and UC London. Her publications are all about history, with no religious apologetics.

The author of the book did his BA in history at Oxford and his PhD at Cambridge. His blog is entirely about science, with no apologetics. https://www.sebfalk.com/blog

Positive review of The Light Ages in a center-left newspaper. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/s...-dark-ages

Bel uses a article from a right wing rag own by a tabloid engine .Written by an apologist trying to push pop Christian revisionism. Nice

Yeah guys, Medieval times weren't dark, they were just bad. Like life expectancy was 30 years. But Church loved Medieval times because they could easily manipulate people who were mostly slaves and poorly educated. That's why Church fought against democracy as long as it could. Like when Pope Gregory XVI banned railways in papal states fearing that the middle class would be too strong and overthrow his autocratic power.

brief review of The Light Ages https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/gazi...ry-motions

Not really the Ancient greeks did more for the vacuums and inertia most of what was done in schools was relearning what was lost

The Cathedral schools were definitely an engine for the study of math and the universe. From an enunciation of the concept of inertia, to an analysis of the concept of a vacuum, many ideas were discussed. While little was resolved, it did lay the foundation for later work in the sciences.

you also have to be care about the early midddle ages and the later middle ages. Before the Carolingian revolution, things were quite different than after the translation movement.

As long as natural philosophers didn't tread on dogma, they were pretty much left alone.