The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

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The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

• The Dawn of Reason

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The Essence of It All

• MAN IS THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING
• Gods Chosen, in his image
• The Earth is unique and we stand alone

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Ptolemy, Aristotle, and the Bible

• Put aside your fake Science. PROVE to me that
  the Earth isnt flat, that it is round.
• Much Easier Prove to me that it is flat.

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Orbs of Light
Crystalline Spheres
Empyrean
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So Why Question Things Now?

• Prior ALL truth from Church Bible
• During chaos used superstition.
• Reformation
• What is True?
• Spirit of Exploration
• Whats out there?

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Copernicus
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Why is this SO Dangerous?

• Takes Man out of the center of Gods creation
• Is the Bible LYING!!!
• Is God (and the Church) WRONG!!!

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What it Doesnt Answer

• Still sees universe as heliocentric and spherical
  (spheres still exist)
• Doesnt know how or why planets move (orbs still
  exist)

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Brahe and Kepler
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Elliptical Orbits
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Significance???

• Shatters idea of Crystalline Spheres
• NO EMPYREAN!!!
• Dont know what planets are or why they move

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Galileo Galilei
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The Telescope Kills the Orbs

• Saw Moons of Jupiter
• Saw craters mountains on the moon
• ARE WE NOT SPECIAL IN GODS CREATION?
• No differences

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Galileos Laws incomplete

• Objects move at an accelerated rate when force is
  applied
• Bodies continue in motion until a force is
  applied
• Couldnt find the force that made it all move

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Conflict With the Church

• 1632 - Catholics and Protestants angry at his
  Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
  in which he defended Copernicus
• Pope puts him under house arrest for life

• Under threat of torture, Galileo forced to
  renounce his findings

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Newton
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3 Laws of Motion
Used to prove HOW and WHY planets and stars moved
and were set in the universe. AE Bio of Newton
(from 356)
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So What???

• Math and Science PROVED it.
• Bible and Church rely on FAITH.
• Man can unlock secrets of the universe if we
  apply math and reason
• NATURAL LAW codes that God used to write the
  universe.

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Measuring Improving the World

• Vesalius On the Structures of the Human
  Body
• Harvey Blood, veins and arteries
• Von Leeuwenhoek microscope
• Boyle Chemistry
• And this was the birth of the modern world!!!