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Essay / Scientific Revolution DBQ - 608
During the Scientific Revolution, the struggle between faith and reason was manifested through Galileo and his discoveries. The Catholic Church, at the time of the Scientific Revolution, did not approve of any outside scientists proposing new theories and observations. The Church believed that all the information about how the world worked was found in the Bible and that it was the only good source. In an excerpt from “What is Scientific Authority?” written by Galileo in 1615, he states: "Showing a greater attachment to their own [Catholic Church's] opinions than to the truth, they sought to deny and refute the new things which, had they taken care to search for themselves, their own senses could have seen. demonstrated to them…” Galileo Galilei himself knew that the Church was not willing to endorse new ideas from other scientists, but only the teachings of the Bible. Later in the excerpt, Galileo writes: “They [the Catholic Church] made various accusations and… made the grave error of sprinkling them with passages taken from places in the Bible that they did not fully understand....