There's two sides to the "Crusades". Chrisitians will say it was defensive and others will say that it was just them taking out whoever who wasn't them. I'll take the latter since they killed pagans, jews, enemies of the pope and plenty of others, not just muslims. The crusaders were told to kill those people in exchange for a clean slate with their sins, I wouldn't call that a "defensive" tactic. I know the religion was growing, but I haven't heard of 75 percent of the world - they were taking over the Byzantine(sp) Empire of course.


As for the science part, they don't really go hand and hand at all when it comes to how we got here. Though evolution still is a theory, I'd say it has a lot more facts to it then Adam and Eve. Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind, those aren't my words btw.