1. What role did Christianity play in the development of modern science? 2. Why

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1. What role did Christianity play in the development of modern science? 2. Why did conflict arise between the newly developed way of explaining natural phenomena - natural philosophy (science) - and the church? 3. Did the Enlightenment build on or enhance religious understanding or was it antithetical to religious beliefs? Explain and defend your answer 4. According to the author, the overall goal of the Enlightenment thinkers was not to develop or improve on our understanding of the natural world. Instead it was to do what? Why then did the leaders of the Enlightenment embrace scientific methodology and reasoning?

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According to the historian, it has suggested that modern history developed in a Christian culture because Christian people believed that the universe is regular, orderly, and rational and the god is personal, rational, and faithful. Modern science developed during 16th and 17th centuries in Western Europe and this period are known as scientific revolution. The middle age was the time of innovation and progress where Christianity was more dominant. In the field of physics, researchers have found different theories of accelerated motion, the rotation of the earth. It is significant that the scientific revolution developed in Christian culture and both Copernicus who was an administrator of the Roman Catholic Church, and Johannes Kepler, a Protestant. In 1543, Nicholas Copernicus published the model of solar system, and later Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, Galileo’s telescopic observations, Newton’s law of universal gravitation, and Boyle's law of gases by the chemist Robert Boyle were discovered.

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