dmcg, yep, you got "modern" right. what you did not, was the context. my point ,was, that having belief in creation did nothing to hamper scientists.

Post 994, I believe: nearly stopping time!

I did get both the meaning and the context, I see from your response. It did not hamper them (much) then, but it would still hamper them now.

Let me give an analogy. A group of people are climbing a cliff. Naturally, they start from the bottom, and each metre they climb is hard won. Having got a very substantial way up this cliff, and learned a lot of the nooks and crannies, and the hidden hand-holds, a voice calls out that we should start at the bottom again, because the people who started were able to make progress even though they lacked of knowledge of these handholds...