The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution The Dawn of Reason

The Essence of It All MAN IS THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING –God’s Chosen, in his image –The Earth is unique and we stand alone

Ptolemy, Aristotle, and the Bible Put aside your fake “Science”. PROVE to me that the Earth isn’t flat, that it is round. Much Easier: Prove to me that it is flat.

Empyrean Orbs of Light Crystalline Spheres

So Why Question Things Now? Prior – ALL truth from Church & Bible –During chaos used superstition. Reformation –What is True? Spirit of Exploration –What’s out there?

Copernicus

Why is this SO Dangerous? Takes Man out of the center of God’s creation Is the Bible LYING!!! Is God (and the Church) WRONG!!!

What it Doesn’t Answer Still sees universe as heliocentric and spherical (spheres still exist) Doesn’t know how or why planets move (orbs still exist)

Brahe and Kepler

Elliptical Orbits

Significance??? Shatters idea of Crystalline Spheres NO EMPYREAN!!! Don’t know what planets are or why they move

Galileo Galilei

The Telescope Kills the Orbs Saw Moons of Jupiter Saw craters & mountains on the moon –ARE WE NOT SPECIAL IN GOD’S CREATION? –No differences…

Galileo’s Laws… incomplete Objects move at an accelerated rate when force is applied Bodies continue in motion until a force is applied Couldn’t find the force that made it all move…

Conflict With the Church Under threat of torture, Galileo forced to renounce his findings 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…

Newton

3 Laws of Motion Used to prove HOW and WHY planets and stars moved and were set in the universe. A&E Bio of Newton (from 3:56)

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.

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!!!