Science Undermined a Belief in God Through

question 8

Multiple Choice

Science undermined a belief in God through:

• A) the use of microscopes and telescopes, which revealed useless worlds far beyond the range of human senses, irrelevant to humanity, the supposed culmination of God's Creation.
• B) mechanical philosophy, which eliminated a need for divine action in the universe.
• C) the revelation of the needless complexity of objects and systems, which seemed incompatible with the design of an intelligent Creator.
• D) an application of geometry and ethics to prove the single substance of the universe that was nature.
• E) There is no evidence to suggest that scientific discoveries in the seventeenth century actually undermined religious faith. For many, these discoveries provided new evidence of God's existence.

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