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Difference Between The Scientific Revolution And Enlightenment

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The scientific revolution is defined as “the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed views of society and nature.” During the scientific revolution and enlightenment many great thinkers such as Francois-Marie Arouet took a stand and said “No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.” What he meant was that it was foolish for people to kill each other over their religion and beliefs. He himself declared that the Bible was not an embodiment of truth or fact, but an opinion. He was sick of living in a society that burned people alive for turning their backs on religion. Francois-Marie Arouet was not alone of course. Many other thinkers emerged with him and began the age of Enlightenment, where scientists didn’t make …show more content…

If the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment had never happened, the world would still be afraid to advance because God would not approve. Many of the methods and ideas that the thinkers of the Scientific Revolution have given us were considered false in the eyes of the church. Before Isaac Newton, every human being was certain that the universe was created by God. No one would question God’s existence and if they did they were punished. Newton did not question God’s existence, and infact did agree that he had created the universe, but he argued that its motion was not controlled by God but instead was governed by the law of motion which was mechanical and predictable. Humans no longer feared God as much as they used to because of Newton. Even though he still believed in God, he denied his wrath. The end of the world as written in the bible is now more of a fiction in the eyes of most humans, and the fear of God is not instilled into their minds just as it was during the

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