[Coyoteman]

And they began to make real progress when they finally escaped the stiffling thumb of religious control. I think it was called The Enlightenment."

Another evolutionist "myth". Christianity never objected to science, as it was always held and still is that the discovery of TRUTH will eventually lead to God, because God is TRUTH.

Giordano Bruno.
Galileo.

[metmom]

Oppression by power hungry people is not the sole domain of religion. Plenty of atheistic regimes have suppressed intellectual anything. Can you say Pol Pot? Can you say Stalin? I knew you could. So we can conclude, therefore, that atheism is the enemy of scientific inquiry and learning.

There’s nothing in the religious teachings of the Bible that precludes or prohibits the pursuit of knowledge or scientific inquiry. Laying the blame for that on religion instead of rightly laying the blame for that at the feet of the men who abused their power and position is intellectually dishonest.