Dark Ages Quotes (2)

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch‎ (1921), viii.
See also:  |  Charles Darwin (170)  |  Leonardo da Vinci (16)  |  Sir Humphry Davy (36)  |  Discovery (166)  |  Earth (93)  |  Electricity (30)  |  Galileo Galilei (55)  |  Genesis (3)  |  Industry (15)  |  Invention (84)  |  Moon (34)  |  Sun (37)

I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in fact round; the Earth does revolve around the sun. I believe God gave us intellect to differentiate between imprisoning dogma and sound ethical science, which is what we must do here today.
Debating federal funding for stem cell research as Republican Representative (CT).
In Eve Herold, George Daley, Stem Cell Wars (2007), 57.
See also:  |  Ethics (16)  |  Proof (59)  |  Stem Cell (5)

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