Scientific Revolution
One of the important causes of the Scientific Revolution came from _______ Humanism
Christian
Thomas Hobbes believes any ideas humans do not get from their senses are ______.
Nonsense
Prior to the French Revolution, what % of the people were poor farmers?
97%
Copernicus can be said to launch the scientific revolution by saying ____ may be the center of things.
The sun
Blaise Pascal's 'Wager' proposes belief in God is a good bet because ___
Even a slim chance on God's existence has an infinite payoff
During the French Revolution, what percent of the clergy were executed for resisting the state?
75%
The church opposed Galileo by quoting scripture, but it also objected to his ideas because he challenged ______.
Aristotle
Rene Descartes was a forerunner of The Enlightenment because he writes of God's benevolence in providing us trustworthy senses and minds from which we can understand his world. His ideas are called ____.
Rationalism
During the Revolution, the week was lengthened to 10 days. Why?
So people would not know when to observe Sunday.
Francis Bacon said combining these two disciplines does each a disservice. What are they?
Science and theology
The core idea behind The Enlightenment is that every day the world will become more and more ____.
Enlightened!
Public resistance was so strong, Revolution leaders were forced to replace the Cult of Reason with the Cult of ____?
The Supreme Being
The natural orderliness of the world
Voltaire's ideas led to our Bill of Rights. He was a strong proponent of the separation of these things.
Church and state
Joseph Fouche ordered this written on all cemetery gates.
"Death is an eternal sleep."