Hey I recently saw a Family Guy episode where they said that if Christianity didn't exist so the Dark Ages wouldn't have happened and therefore we would be much more advanced then we are right now. Is that true? If the Dark Ages didn't happen would we be much more advanced in tech and science? I know the answer is probably yes but I just find it very depressing to believe because I am high tech guy.
I was told that the Dark Ages was a time where nobody believe in god and therefore they went chaotic. Therefore resulting in the inability to concentrate and make scientific advacements.
The Italian scholar Frances Petrarch coined the phrase Dark Age. He said,
"Amidst the errors there shone forth men of genius, no less keen were their eyes, although they were surrounded by darkness and dense gloom". Petrarch was criticizing the stagnation of accomplishments by the secular. Religion and belief in God didn’t disappear during that time in history.
From Wikipedia,
The
Dark Ages is a term in historiography referring to a period of cultural decline or societal collapse that supposedly took place in Western Europe between the fall of Rome and the eventual recovery of learning.
The
Middle Ages of European history (adjective form medieval or mediæval) was a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christianity in the Reformation, the rise of humanism in the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of European overseas expansion.
Until the Renaissance (and for some time after that), the standard scheme of history was to divide history into six ages, inspired by the biblical six days of creation, or four monarchies based on Daniel 2:40. The early Renaissance historians, in their glorification of all things classical, declared two periods in history, that of Ancient times and that of the period referred to as the "Dark Age".
When modern scholarly study of the Middle Ages arose in the 19th century, the term "Dark Ages" was at first kept, with all its critical overtones. Although it was never the more formal term (universities named their departments "medieval history" not "Dark Age history"), it was widely used, including in such classics as Edward Gibbon's
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which expressed the author's contempt for the "rubbish of the Dark Ages". However, the early 20th century saw a radical re-evaluation of the Middle Ages, and with it a calling into question of the terminology of darkness. Historiographer Denys Hay exemplified this when he spoke ironically of "the lively centuries which we call dark". It became clear that serious scholars would either have to redefine the term or abandon it.
