Blog #6

Chapter 15 (pp. 740-752) + Document 15.2, Condorcet (pp. 756-57)

The Scientific Revolution changed the way many thought about religion.  The way people viewed the universe, earth itself and human beings changed with ideas presented by intellectual scientists.  This seemed to panic some of the churches as it went against some of their teachings, while at the same time made way for cultural transformations as well.  During the time so much new information was discovered, especially with regards to the medical field, astronomy and math.  The church and the word corrupt never seem like they should be used together, however I find it quite disturbing that churches actually tried to shut people up and make them retract their findings because it did not agree with everything the church as teaching or preaching.  How sad that these churches lost the basics of the church being spiritual and that religion and science would compliment each other and survive together peacefully. Enlightenment was supposed to be progress but it sounds as if the church went backwards instead of forward with their thinking.  It is interesting that Marx and Darwin thought the opposite of Enlightenment, that struggle and conflict was progress moving forward.  I am sure that over long periods of time, similar thoughts such as the quote from the Ninth Epoch “The progress of philosophy destroyed within the general mass of people the prejudices that have afflicted and corrupted the human race for so long a time” have been repeated just as surely as history tells us that prejudices keep showing back up.