Discuss the enlightenment

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Enlightenment Discussion

Watch the video below on the Enlightenment.

If you cannot see the video

All About the Enlightenment The Age of Reason

Respond in writing to the following questions after reading your text and watching the video above.

Defend the following statement by focusing on three landmark works of the European Enlightenment: "The Enlightenment marks the divide between an essentially medieval view of the world as dominated by divine truths and the principles of religious faith, and the modern view of the world as governed by scientific truths and the principles of human reason."
Compare the Catholic Church's response to Galileo's description of the heliocentric universe to contemporary Evangelical concerns with the teaching of evolution.

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