Religion V.s. Science

Question 1

Before science, the population depended on religion and its supernatural explanations

Answer 1

Used it to understand the works of earth and social life - why things happened and explained through acts of god + religious moral code

Question 2

1600’s

Answer 2

Academics and scholars become curious about the work of god, early scientific progress was used to see if religious stories were true or not - astronomers who looked at the sun + said it orbited around the earth. Scientific knowledge was controlled by the church and going against could lead to prison - gaillou

Question 3

18th century

Answer 3

Brought the englightment period, a time of scientific knowledge + understanding, science distracted itself from religion + questioned the bible more. As science explained natural disasters

Question 4

20th + 21st centuries

Answer 4

Brought about debate regarding the relationship between science + religion, some believe science is more superior however religion brings conformt such as what happened when we die, science cannot explain this