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science and the church, the Scientific revolution.
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What was the scientific revolution?
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Well, the scientific revolution was a big step in the
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human comprehension and development and took place in Europe around
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the time of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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It was a time where mathematics and sciences, including astrology,
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physics, biology and chemistry give a new perspective on nature,
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space and life on Earth due to the application of
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those things.
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Math and science.
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It was the time when we evolved and changed our
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views on the world as a society.
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Funny enough, the scientific revolution wasn't actually called the scientific
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revolution Until the 20th century.
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Also, there was no real reason why it occurred simply.
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Science have been developed to the point where scientists were
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able to show how the world really worked with proof,
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therefore giving society and new perspective on how things work.
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The impact its impact included the change of views and
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perspectives on how we view our world scientifically and mathematically
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as a whole.
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Society. Also, new ways of experimenting came into play to
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find more accurate results.
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Much more accurate results.
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The primary way of experimenting at the time of the
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revolution being systematic experimentation, which basically means it isn't completely
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random for more accurate results.
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It also had its impact on the church, but we'll
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get to that later.
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Some key figures uh included, sorry, some key figures that
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largely contributed to this were Nicholas copernicus, Francis, bacon and
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rene discourteous.
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Around the early 15 hundreds medieval scientific perspectives and thoughts
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about how things work where, how almost all of europe
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thought about how things worked.
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Nicholas copernicus introduced to the world, or at least europe,
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that the earth revolves around the sun, which is one
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of the first introductory concepts about astronomy for the Van
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medieval thinking, europe, he, along with some other notable historical
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figures, helped give new views on how our universe worked
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based on natural science, contrary to peer religious belief.
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Francis speaking, Francis Bacon was responsible for introducing empiricism.
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Empiricism is the way of obtaining new knowledge through an
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experimental process.
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This became one of the most used ways of obtaining
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new information in the coming years, baking completely disagreed with
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the medieval scientific ways of understanding the universe and that
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you needed to find evidence through experimenting in order to
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obtain new information.
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Rene Descartes believed that anything that could be doubted should
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be doubted.
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With this, he introduced the concept of using a logical
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deductive thinking and analyzing in order to obtain the answers
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to problems, doubts or to find slash obtained new information.
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He, as well as France speaking, did not agree with
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the way of Medieval thinking nor its scientific methods of
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obtaining new information.
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With the combined efforts and strategies, Francis, bacon and rene
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disc artists became the scientific method of doing things and
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would be a key way of thinking in years to
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come. The church's response, how it affect the church.
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The scientific revolution affected the church because before scientific thought
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was introduced, people looked up to the church as sort
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of index encyclopedia of our universe and everything that they
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said goes when the scientific revolution came along, many of
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the church's teachings were contradicted by the newfound natural laws
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of science.
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If people had kept questioning the church's ways in may
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weaken and therefore die as religious empire.
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Yeah, the church's response and why.
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Uh in the year 1633, Galileo Galilee was persecuted by
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the church for publishing a book which included ideas and
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concepts that heavily contradicted many of the church's teachings.
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The conclusion of the trial was that Galileo gave in
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to the church, but the pope of the time, Pope
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Urban the Seventh, was not satisfied.
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Galileo ended up being forced to be under house arrest
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despite having underlying medical conditions as well as other medical
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issues. He ended up dying in the year 1642.
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Many years later, Pope John Paul II reopened the Galileo
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of trial in the year of 1983, and in 1992,
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the church recognized that when Galileo was defending in this
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time was actually right, the church responded in this way,
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which naturally they didn't want to lose their long had
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power, influence and credibility.
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In recent years, it was a big step for the
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catholic church to acknowledge science and the scientific revolution, even
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if it was many years later, in conclusion, the original
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response from the church was understandable but unjust.
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Instead, they should have tried to realize that religion and
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science can coexist more proof as to why this is
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possible. Is every person that I've mentioned so far that
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has contributed to the scientific revolution.
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Was in some way related to the catholic church today.
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The church is in fact co existing with science and
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not only the pope, but many scientists today can agree
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with this statement mm connections.
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So connections to the textbook, something connected to my ice.
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You are the reforms of the high Middle ages.
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They happened because the church as a community had been
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moving in the wrong direction and these reforms helped put
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it back on track in the way that God intended.
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The two reforms that I am going to be connecting
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to my issue are at the clinic reforms and the
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gregorian reforms.
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Clooney is a place where William of Aquitaine donated land
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for a new Benedictine monastery.
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It was meant to be free.
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It was meant to be a land free of secular
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rule and answered only to the pope.
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They wanted to reform the church into what God truly
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desired for man to do, including lots of prayer, generosity
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to the poor etcetera.
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It is important because it became the reason for the
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unity of christian communities across europe and also became the
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fountainhead of reform.
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Gregorian reforms are the reforms from Pope Gregory the seventh.
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His reforms included the insistence of clerical celibacy which is
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not getting married due to having sexual thoughts, which are
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considered sinful, getting rid of ways for secular rulers to
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have control over the church and that the true ruler
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is simply christ himself.
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The reforms also included the more integrity and independence of
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the clergy.
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The connection uh huh between me, my topic and the
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reforms are when the church realized that they were doing
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something wrong and going in the wrong direction, they were
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able to identify what was wrong and how to fix
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it with a scientific revolution situation.
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Although hundreds of years later, the pope realized that the
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mistake was made all those years ago and came forward
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to representing the church and apologized and recognized that the
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church was wrong.
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This demonstrated taking initiative and responsibility for primary actions even
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though they were not his wrongdoings and a sort of
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reform by acknowledging salads.
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Yeah, around the same time as the scientific revolution, colonists
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were making their way to the americans.
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When they did, they basically took over the land of
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the aboriginal peoples Yeah.
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Of whatever land they took for themselves, this caused a
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loss of culture, a loss of family members and a
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loss of tradition for the aboriginal peoples of the time.
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In recent years.
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Justin Trudeau, who is not even alive at the time
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of these horrendous actions, took responsibility and apologize to the
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aboriginal peoples of Canada for all of the pain and
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suffering that they went through due to the colonists.
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This relates to my topic because although the church wrongfully
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persecuted Galileo at the time, they were able to come
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forward all these years later and take responsibility by apologizing
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and recognizing that what they were doing and what occurred
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all those years ago was wrong.
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Yeah.