... beliefs and values taught to people with little or no room for own interpretation. The Scientific Revolution in the 17th century brought forth new views on science and skepticism of religion. The philosophers of the time focused on reason and truth. Also during the Reformation religious views were the set of controversy. Both of these eras opened the door for the philosophes ... during the Age of Enlightenment. The philosophes believed that they needed to not only discuss philosophy but also change the world around them. Reason to them was scientific method meant to produce facts from ex...

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... dark room, science (the flashlight) is merely one way of finding out about our world, which by itself cannot fulfill our curiosity, so indeed religion (a hypothesis) is needed to complete the search for answers. Science, by providing methods to investigate our external universe (the dark room), by ... so distant from each other? It wasn't until the 18th century, during the Enlightenment Era, that traditional thought patterns were being questioned by science. Philosophers such as Kant and Rousseau argued that science and religion should be kept apart. That idea further rose in the 19th c...

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... Scientific Revolution aided in creating the most influential movement in Europe. Those intellects with many others alike, worked to create an earth shattering movement. The influential figureheads of the Enlightenment period are cast over vastly different areas of expertise. Some studied the heavens surrounding our earth; others created masterpieces not comparable even in this day and age. Their works ... -minded views of many monarchies and the church in that time period had no ear for altering their universal assumptions. Roadblocks and doubters aside, brave actions throughout many ot...

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