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Old 03-29-2007, 09:45 AM   #161
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Originally Posted by AnthonyCook View Post
I thought I'd post this excerpt from David Mill's book Athesit Universe.
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Fifteen-hundred years of progress were therefore stifled by the Christian Church. Were it not for religious persecution and oppression of science, mankind might have landed on the moon in the year 650AD. Cancer may ahve been eradicated forever by the year 800AD. And heart disease may, today, be unknown. But Christianity put into deep hibernation Greek and Egyptian scientific gains of the past....
He forgot the part about the nuclear conflagration in 857AD destroying civilization, which was caused, in large part, by the accidental release of a 'superbug' from a research laboratory in 849AD.

Just having fun, which is what re-writing alternative history is all about, right?

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