At the end of the Medieval Ages, the way the world worked had hardly been questioned, and all of the answers provided were based off of the teachings of the Catholic Church. Questioning the universe and that the scientific revolution that followed not only made sense, but society required it, to grow and understand the world and existence within it. Church leaders questioned whether or not this period of time would play a major impact on religion as a whole, and it certainly had the power to. The doubt that the Roman Catholic Church could not combat the new beliefs that science brought to life was the main conflict. The Church could be weakened by losing supporters, so there was much debate on what position each individual church should take on science. To …show more content…
The study of life in general was more understood than ever before, as medicine and facts took the place of the church’s widespread information based on religious works instead of facts. This era lead to the Enlightenment period, in which independent thought and the strong demand for facts and new information came from the general population. Math, science, medicine, philosophy, discussing thoughts and new information, politics, and physics were the main focus of this time. In essence, this period of time was the manifestation of the Scientific Revolution, allowing for the main principles that were discovered about the world were being put into practice, allowing for further discovery and a need for religious tolerance to make way for science. It allowed the population to use logic instead of outdated ideas from history. This movement also allowed for regulation between experiments with the scientific method- so that results were more factual and with less room for