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What was the impact on religion of the scientific discoveries made during the scientific revolution

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Answer: The first impact that the scientific revolution had on religion was a new push towards reason over faith. For instance, Nicholas Copernicus rejected Ptolemy’s geocentric theory where the earth was the center of the universe and it was very widely accepted by the church and the scientific community.

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The power of the church in Europe weakened, and science began to become a secular field.

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