Question

What was the impact of the Scientific Revolution on the power of the Roman Catholic Church?

A.)It helped explain the scientific theories that the church held, making the Church more powerful.
B.)It promoted rational thinking and presented logical theories that weakened the authority of the church.
C.)It caused people to reject scientific ideas and choose to live under the rigid rules of the church, increasing the church’s power.
D.)It supported Protestant teachings, undermining the authority of the church.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B.

The Enlightenment philosophers, such as Locke, Monstequieu or Rosseau. introduced ideas that started the scientific revolution and that challenged, and ended up derrocating, the power structures of the Old Regime, such as the power held by the European absolute monarchies and by the Roman Catholic Church. They promoted reason and the scientific method over religious dogmatism and superstititions.

Answer 2

The correct answer is - B.) It promoted rational thinking and presented logical theories that weakened the authority of the church.

The Scientific Revolution was of huge importance for the humanity to return on the track of progress, and a huge blow for the authority of the church.

As the Scientific Revolution was becoming stronger and stronger, the people got motivated to think with their own heads, to use logic, to explore things, and not take everything that has been said to them for granted.

The church, on the other side, received a big blow, and its authority was declining very quickly, as the Scientific Revolution managed to put out on surface lots of things that the church was preaching to be different, thus its credibility went down very quickly.