Compare And Contrast The Scientific Discoveries Of The Enlightenment

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 Scientific discoveries in the nineteenth center undermined some of the discoveries from the Enlightenment. For example, Charles Darwin rewrote the rules regarding biology. He believed that animals, as well as humans, were part of the evolution process, and that we came about because of natural selection. When Darwin wrote his two famous books On the Origin of Species and The Decedent of Man, they completely shattered the older, religious beliefs of Copernicus. Karl Marx voiced a view that history always included struggle and class divide. He thought that social class scramble always drives historical evolution. Marx was like a scientist because he based his beliefs on research and proof. Like Darwin, he did not belief