Scientific Revolution

Reading about the scientific revolution allowed me to see why the Catholic Church wanted to shut down the beliefs of the famous philosophers and scientists. While reading about the achievements of philosophers and scientists such as Descartes, Newton, and Galileo, I couldn’t help but think back to the philosophy class I took last semester. I took my first philosophy class my freshmen of college and San Francisco State and I did fairly well in that class. When I was told that I needed to take another philosophy class at Notre Dame, I knew that this class wasn’t going to be easy. Sure enough my professor had my classmates and I doubt everything that I have ever believed. He had us question everything that is happening. This reminded me of how the Catholic Church must have felt.

            The Catholic Church must have known that as soon as the scientific revolution sinks in, they are going to lose control of their people. Their subjects will be taught new things and they will soon doubt God. Just like the people of the Church, as soon as I started learning how to questions the information around me I couldn’t stop. As much as I hated challenging the facts that were given to me, I knew I had to ask questions. I knew that I couldn’t continue to live in a naïve world because that is how you get taken advantage of. The scientific revolution was able to grow because there were people that wanted to learn, as much as people hate change, people would learn to adjust. It doesn’t matter if these scientists and philosophers made any sense to them, as long as the doubt is placed in people’s mind, people will learn to question the world around them.