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To: greenspirit who wrote (42769)	5/4/2013 11:26:12 AM
From: Little Joe	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

"Besides, what poll are you looking at" I have asked him many times and he just ignores the question. Koan just makes up crap and posts it as fact. I have stopped engaging in discussion with him because I believe him to be not only deceitful, but just too looney for me. lj

To: greenspirit who wrote (42769)

5/4/2013 5:15:23 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 85487

<<LOL Scientists are the most informed and disciplined people around? What planet do you live on?>>

It was the scientists and philosophers of the ancient Greeks that lead us out of barbarism and into civilization with their ideas of democracy and establishment of facts and reason.

And after the barbarians destroyed ancient Greece, 1700 years later, it was the scientists and philosophers who once again led us out of the dark ages into the age of enlightenment!

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The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) was a cultural movement of intellectuals in the 17th and 18th centuries, which began first in Europe and later in the American colonies. Its purpose was to reform society using reason, challenge ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and advance knowledge through the scientific method. It promoted scientific thought, skepticism and intellectual interchange and opposed superstition, [1] intolerance and some abuses of power by the church and the state.

Originating about 1650 to 1700, it was sparked by philosophers Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), John Locke (1632–1704), Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), physicist Isaac Newton (1643–1727), [2] and philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778). Ruling princes often endorsed and fostered figures and even attempted to apply their ideas of government in what was known as enlightened absolutism. The Scientific Revolution is closely tied to the Enlightenment, as its discoveries overturned many traditional concepts and introduced new perspectives on nature and man's place within it. The Enlightenment flourished until about 1790–1800, after which the emphasis on reason gave way to Romanticism's emphasis on emotion, and a Counter-Enlightenment gained force. [3]

In France, Enlightenment was based in the salons and culminated in the great Encyclopédie (1751–72) edited by Denis Diderot and (until 1759) Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1713–1784) with contributions by hundreds of leading philosophes (intellectuals) such as Voltaire (1694–1778), Rousseau (1712–1778) [4] and Montesquieu (1689–1755). Some 25,000 copies of the 35 volume set were sold, half of them outside France. The new intellectual forces spread to urban centres across Europe, notably England, Scotland, the German states, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Italy, Austria, and Spain, then jumped the Atlantic into the European colonies, where it influenced Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, among many others, and played a major role in the American Revolution. The political ideals of the Enlightenment influenced the American Declaration of Independence, the United States Bill of Rights, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the Polish–Lithuanian Constitution of May 3, 1791. [