Question

What was the Victorian attitude to scientific discovery? A. They embraced scientific discovery and actively supported research and education. B. They were indifferent to scientific advancements and paid little attention to them. C. They were skeptical of scientific discoveries and resisted new ideas. D. They saw scientific discovery as a threat to traditional beliefs and actively opposed it

Answer 1

D.

The Victorians were very traditional and actively resisted and opposed new scientific discovery, mainly due to the Church telling the people, what was being discovered goes against the religion, they believed God created the universe and we must follow the Bible to the word.

An example is Charles Darwin's book of Origins of the Species in 1859 which deeply disturbed the Victorians, then condemned and banned because it went against the bible and God creating the universe.