This is a totally western-centric view of history. Islam had a golden age during which algebra was created in addition to many other great scientific achievment

This is a totally western-centric view of history. Islam had a golden age during which algebra was created in addition to many other great scientific achievments. And it came it hand in hand with religion. In fact algebra was created to help do the complex math involved in Islamic inheritance laws. And honestly it isn't even very accurate there. The dark ages were called so not because Christianity persecuted science, it was called that because we have few records from that time. The few records we do have, are from the religious clergy.