New Book Sheds Light on the "Dark Age": The Religion vs. Science Myth Exposed

 

According to a new book by James Hannam, The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution, many scientists and historians of science have gotten it all wrong. Citing Andrew Dickson White's classic study, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology (1896), Hannam insists that the work merely gives "the illusion of meticulous scholarship" and that a careful check of the references would lead anyone to "wonder how he could have maintained...