To what degree do you think the continued advancements in science and technology (whatever they were) in the Eastern Roman Empire had on the scientific revolution? (The Eastern empire, after all, never fell in the same way the Western empire did.) Or do you think we were in a state of a complete do-over when the scientific revolution really kicked off in the mid-sixteenth century?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.