Well, this thread generated alot more discussion than I anticipated. It's good to know that many people are still interested in history. Perhaps this new thread isn't so redundant after all?
Tesco - Good idea, but since I would be on Fyron's team (if we're defining it along religious lines I'm definitely not a true believer - more of an agnostic really) we'd have to play the AI, and that just wouldn't be much fun.
Fyron - I thought that I did provide plenty of supporting examples on my points. Could you be more specific on the types of evidence you would like to see?
Narrew and Fyron - I won't argue that the world view of the Middle Ages seems somewhat limited from our modern perspective. But as Kwok has argued, the reasons for this go beyond the Church. Are you arguing that without the Church there would have arisen a kind of spontaneous Scientific Revolution?