science vs

CONFLICT RESOLUTION 1600-

1700

What should you have done? How should you

have reacted? ETC!

HOW I FEEL AS A TEACHER

WHAT CAME BEFORE

The Catholic Church was

considered the sole source of

answers before the Scientific

Revolution occurred.

SO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

Many scientific concepts that

were developed during this time

period disproved things the

Catholic Church taught.

SO HOW DID THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FEEL?

The Catholic Church,

which taught that

everything had to be

accepted by faith, didn’t

appreciate the

scientists questioning

them.

POWER LINES!

The Catholic Church

believed its power was

threatened. And like a

wise man once said,

“No one who gains

power wants to lose it.”

Galileo was

ordered to recant

(say he was wrong)

about his beliefs or

face death

SO WHAT DID THEY DO?

The most famous example…

THE CRAZY PART?

Most of the scientists were not trying to

fight the church and many were Christians.

“It is the perfection of God's works that

they are all done with the greatest simplicity.

He is the God of order and not of confusion.”

Isaac Newton

THE RESULTS?

Philosophers took note of the scientists’

successes and began to imagine how they

could challenge the political powers.

The goal – to make a more free country.