It was in the 4th Century that the assault on reason, logic and the rational mind began. 150 years after the Nicene Council the last astronomer's observations were written. After that....nothing for 1500 years!
Science died. Rational thinking died.
The Apostle Paul and Pope Gregory killed logical thinking.
The edict from the Church was that rational thinking fooled man into thinking that events have causes which are predictable rather than being at the divine whim of God Almighty.
Interest in discovering "why" evaporated into superstitious ignorance.
Our planet still suffers from this assault on human intelligence as a majority of people brought up under the irrational delusions and wishful-thinking of religion hold irrational beliefs at the center of their mind.
Modern science has given us medicine, hygiene, technology, longer life span, gene mapping and so many labor saving improvements that the last few generations have lived in a kind of Utopian luxury never before dreamed possible. Even the very poor have satellite dishes, microwave ovens and color televsion and cellphones!
But, at the center of thought is FAITH which is a completely destructive insistance on medieval thinking which holds that: Unprovable assertions without evidence are to be considered in the same equality as actual proof for no other reason than it MIGHT BE POSSIBLE. In other words: a POTENTIAL is equal to an ACTUAL.
So, anything I can imagine to be true must be respected as potentially TRUE and held as a standard for reality.
FAITH is an opinion based on no evidence. FAITH is an emotional attachment to an idea which ideally is preferred over what we know.
It is not a healthy thing.