Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
Religion and Enlightenment
Religion and Enlightenment pt. 2
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The best known astronomer in history

What is Galileo Galilei

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Francis Bacon is credited with creating what type of reasoning?

What is inductive reasoning

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What did people put their trust in rather than God?

What is logic/reasoning

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Who wrote "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God?"

What is Johnathan Edwards

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What was Ptolemy's theory of the universe?

That the sun orbited the planets

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Who is credited with creating the laws of gravity?

What is Isaac Newton

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Rene Descartes is credited with creating what type of reasoning?

What is deductive reasoning
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Which preacher traveled over 250,000 on horseback to preach?

What is John Wesley

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Which person co-founded the methodists along with Charles Wesley?

What is George Whitfield

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What is Ms. Robertson's favorite MLB team?

What is the NY Yankees

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What did Andreas Vesalius examine?

What is the human body

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Inductive method of reasoning

What is creating a tentative conclusion and then proving answer with more information to verify results.

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Why were churches experiencing decline?

The pastors had a lack of training, dull and lifeless sermons, some not even converted

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Which preacher sailed in 1735 to the American colony of GA to be a missionary?

What is John Wesley

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What were some of the effects of the scientific revolution?

What is a better, healthier, society. Improved quality of life. 

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Who laid the groundwork for Einstein's theory of relativity?

What is Isaac Newton

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Deductive method of reasoning

What is starting with a simple premise and, through logic, people could arrive at a more complex truth. 

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What group of people were the first Protestants to send missionaries?

What is the Moravians

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Where is Ms. Robertson from?

What is Georgia

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What 2 principles for understanding did people rely on?

What is church authority and ancient philosophy/ers

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Who was a dedicated Christian and lectured in defense of Christianity?

What is Robert Boyle

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What did people believe was the gateway to human progress

What is reason

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Deism

acknowledged God as real but did not view him as personal.

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What did the Enlightenment produce all throughout Europe and even into America?

revival

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Which scientist contradicted Ptolemy's theory of the universe?

What is Nicolaus Copernicus