They were Blinded with Science

An interesting post by Gene Callahan refutes the idea that the Middle Age and Renaiissance societies were anti-science, or that ideas such as the geocentric model of the solar system were based on a resistance to reason.
Rather, based on the data available, the explanations seemed to make more sense than the explanations that later would turn out to be true.
In other words, those who believed in the geocentric model of the solar system were making scientific conclusions based on the data available to them at the time. To act as if they were reason-hating bigots is no more accurate than to deride Newton as anti-scientific because his theories of physics were later shown to be deficient by Einstein.